Faculty Bibliography

In order to determine the exact cause of the death of publishing magnate Robert Maxwell, US medical examiners say they will have to carefully examine his organs, the height and structure of the yacht, the log books for wind and current, and for any signs of possible drug or alcohol use

The CDC came under a barrage of criticism on Nov 4, 1991 for trying to develop a list of procedures that doctors and dentists infected with the AIDS virus should not perform. Virtually the only support for the CDC's position came from the AMA

The U.C.L.A. team's initial report led to widespread publicity, intense controversy and fear. The subjects of the study were 133 gay men who were deemed virus-free by the standard AIDS test. Using viral cultures and a new and highly sensitive technique known as PCR for polymerase chain reaction, the U.C.L.A. researchers reported finding the virus in 31 of them, or 23 percent. Dr. [Anthony S. Fauci] said he had felt 'something was wrong' with the U.C.L.A. conclusions from the very start because 'our work and C.D.C.'s showed that when we saw such a case, invariably the individual's standard AIDS blood test soon became positive.' Dr. Fauci said the most disturbing elements of the episode were the inability of the U.C.L.A. scientists to reproduce their own results and the failure of independent laboratories to confirm the findings. 'The burden of proof is now on them,' Dr. Fauci said

An experimental vaccine that protects against chicken pox also protects against shingles, a small federal study found

William A. Knaus and his team at George Washington University Medical Center have developed a computerized system that allows doctors to compare a patient with more than 17,000 others who were treated in 40 hospitals throughout the country in order to determine the patient's chance of survival

The New England Journal of Medicine is to report that persistent infection with the Helicobacter pylori bacterium greatly increases the risks of stomach cancer

WASHINGTON - The federal guidelines to prevent health-care workers from transmitting the AIDS virus to patients are in deep trouble because of growing doubts about their scientific basis. The guidelines, issued in July by the Centers for Disease Control, call on all professional health groups to develop lists of procedures that should be considered as high risk for transmitting the AIDS virus. The guidelines were prompted by an investigation that traced the transmission of the AIDS virus to five patients from Dr. David Acer, a Florida dentist who died of AIDS a year ago

The CDC's guidelines to protect against health care workers' transmitting the AIDS virus to patients are in trouble due to growing doubts about their scientific basis

The American Dental Association said on Oct 10, 1991 that it was unable to draw up a list of procedures believed to pose a high risk of transmitting the AIDS virus to patients as federal health officials had requested

The Nobel Prize-winning work on cell function by German scientists Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann, which has shed light on the causes of several diseases and amounted to a revolution in biologic understanding, is described