Faculty Bibliography

Because Hepatitis B is endemic in many Asian countries, growth in the number of Asian immigrants in New York and across the country has made the disease a broad, expensive, emerging health problem. In the 2000 census, there were 800,000 Asians in the city, with roughly half from China. Hepatitis B, like hepatitis C, is generally contracted through the blood, and is not transmitted through casual contact with infected people. Hepatitis A, which is caused by a different virus, can be transmitted through food, but hepatitis B cannot, with very rare exceptions. Early detection and suppression of the virus can interrupt the cycle of mother-to-child transmission. An adult immune system can usually fight off a new hepatitis B infection, though a small number of cases become chronic. But, Dr. [Henry J. Pollack] said, ''If you get it when you're an infant, your chance of getting chronic hepatitis B is greater than 90 percent.''

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, said that failed to resolve the issue of leadership. ''Under the president's plan,'' Mrs. Clinton said, ''we still don't know who is accountable within our federal government.'' ''In the Northwest, we have 42,000 travelers going and coming from Asia every week,'' Ms. [Mary Selecky] said. ''We don't want to have to deal in an isolated way with a plane carrying potentially infected people.'' ''They gave us a list of work that they expect us to do,'' Ms. Selecky said, ''but they've only given us a little bit of one-time money. We need a sustained effort.''

The goals include helping make sure that ''people aren't coming and going from a workplace at the same time'' and generally to ''encourage people to stay at home'' if they have any sense they are infected, the official said. ''The main purpose of this implementation plan is to say, 'Department X, you need to be doing the following,' '' he said. The nation's borders would almost certainly not be closed, the draft summary says, because the virus would enter the country anyway, enforcement would be difficult, and such an action would ''present foreign affairs complications and have significant negative social and economic consequences.''

The publication process is complex. Many factors can allow error, even fraud, to slip through. They include economic pressures for journals to avoid investigating suspected errors; the desire to avoid displeasing the authors and the experts who review manuscripts; and the fear that angry scientists will withhold the manuscripts that are the lifeline of the journals, putting them out of business.By promoting the sanctity of peer review and using it to justify a number of their actions in recent years, journals have added to their enormous power. A widespread belief among nonscientists is that journal editors and their reviewers check authors' research firsthand and even repeat the research. In fact, journal editors do not routinely examine authors' scientific notebooks. Instead, they rely on peer reviewers' criticisms, which are based on the information submitted by the authors. The public and many scientists tend to overlook the journals' economic benefits that stem from linking their embargo policies to peer review. Some journals are owned by private for-profit companies, while others are owned by professional societies that rely on income from the journals. The costs of running journals are low because authors and reviewers are generally not paid

Dr. [Jean A. Bernard], a pioneering French hematologist who diagnosed the cancer that the shah of Iran kept secret for many years, and that ultimately sent him to an American hospital in a chain of events that led to the Tehran hostage crisis of 1979-81, died at his home in Paris on April 17. He was 98

Dr. Jean A. Bernard, a pioneering French hematologist who diagnosed the cancer that the shah of Iran kept secret for many years, and that ultimately sent him to an American hospital in a chain of events that led to the Tehran hostage crisis of 1979-81, died at his home in Paris on April 17. He was 98. The shah was deposed in the Iranian revolution of 1978 and fled to exile in Mexico. When his cancer worsened in 1979, President Carter allowed him to enter the United States for treatment at New York Hospital in Manhattan. A few days later, a group of Iranians seized the American Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 staff members hostage for more than 14 months, until January 1981

In 1947, he and Marcel Bessis developed exchange blood transfusion as a therapy for childhood leukemia. The transfusions induced what is believed to have been the first temporary remission of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, Professor Jacques- Louis Binet, a hematologist and secretary of the French Academy of Medicine, said last week. In 1948, Bernard and Dr. Jean-Pierre Soulier described a hereditary syndrome that does not allow platelets to stick to blood vessels and form clots. It leads to bleeding in children and is now known as the Bernard-Soulier syndrome. He did not know who the patient would be when a trainee of his, practicing in Iran, asked him to come to Tehran urgently in 1974. Bernard took another trainee, Georges Flandrin. The patient was Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was bothered by an enlarged spleen

Since AIDS first made headlines 25 years ago, it killed 25 million people worldwide and infect 40 million more in one of the worst epidemics in history. Altman relates that in 1985 he was greeted with skepticism about AIDS in Africa, even though the disease had begun to take a devastating toll there. Here, he details the outbreak of AIDS and why many people, including doctors, did not recognize an epidemic in the making and take steps to try to contain it

The show stopped. In a test of the crew's agility and ingenuity, [Gary Razon] supervised the eight stewards it took to dislodge the woman and carry her to the infirmary. Razon said he 'was so scared because the ship was bouncing and feared she might be bleeding from the hip fracture.' Razon could not reach the nephews. From other calls, he learned that the passenger's mother also was also demented. Her nurse provided the name of the woman's psychiatrist, who was skiing. Razon could not reach the covering physician and sent the woman to a hospital after the ship docked in Nassau. A colleague who was a ship's doctor whetted Razon's appetite for a chance to see the world while practising medicine. Razon said he has travelled to many areas but has had less time ashore than he had expected. Still, he said, 'Being a ship's doctor is an offer I cannot refuse.'

As a cruise ship physician, Dr. Gary Razon's most harrowing moments are when passengers and crew become injured or seriously ill hundreds of kilometers from shore. Sudden life-threatening emergencies like internal bleeding, heart attacks, strokes and broken bones can leave little, if any, time to divert a ship to the nearest port. The challenge for a ship's doctor is to stabilize a patient until the ship reaches land. Razon could not reach the nephews. From other calls, he learned that the passenger's mother also was also demented. Her nurse provided the name of the woman's psychiatrist, who was skiing. Razon could not reach the covering physician and sent the woman to a hospital after the ship docked in Nassau. He became a ship's doctor after a colleague, who was one, whetted his appetite about the chance to see the world while practicing medicine. Razon said he had traveled to many areas but with less time ashore than he had expected. Still, Razon said, 'Being a ship's doctor is an offer I cannot refuse.'