Faculty Bibliography

The man did not have atherosclerosis, which accounts for about half of coronary aneurysms, or any of the rarer conditions associated with aneurysms, like syphilis, trauma and lupus and other connective tissue disorders. So Dr. [Timothy D. Henry] asked if the man had ever used cocaine. Three cardiologists examined the angiogram of each patient in the study to determine the presence or absence of coronary artery aneurysms. If all three doctors agreed that a coronary aneurysm was present, they classified it as definite. If two doctors concurred, they considered the aneurysm probable. In the cocaine user group, 24 patients had definite coronary artery aneurysms and 10 had probable ones. Aneurysms in the coronary arteries rarely burst and pose a less direct risk of death than do brain aneurysms or aortic aneurysms. But the study showed that coronary artery aneurysms might kill by setting up cocaine users for a heart attack

All test kits containing a deadly influenza virus that were sent to 4,614 laboratories in 18 countries last fall and winter have been identified and destroyed, the Centers..

More than four months after the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people, tens of thousands of people are listed as missing and thousands of the bodies that have been recovered have not been identified, experts said at a meeting sponsored by the World Health Organization in Phuket, Thailand...

Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, who is serving as co-chairman of the effort with Mr. [Bill Clinton], said he ''got frightened to death'' after developing Type 2 diabetes. Mr. Huckabee, a Republican, told the students that he had lost 110 pounds in the past two years. Mr. Clinton said that while the national prevalence of childhood obesity was 16 percent, it was 20 percent in the Southeast and 25 percent in Alabama and Mississippi. One reason for the unfavorable statistics in the South, Mr. Huckabee said, was that ''we fry everything we eat and then smother it in gravy.'' Former President Bill Clinton and Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas promoted their anti-obesity drive yesterday at a Manhattan school. (Photo by Peter Foley/European Pressphotos Agency)

No cases of influenza from the strain known as A(H2N2), which caused the Asian flu pandemic in 1957, have been detected anywhere in the world, said the official, Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, who directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Meridian Bioscience Inc., in Cincinnati, shipped the samples beginning last fall under contract with the College of American Pathologists as part of the group's proficiency testing program. Dr. Jared N. Schwartz, an official of the college, has said that when Meridian checked a United States government manual, its team found that the A(H2N2) strain could be sent to laboratories as a biosafety level 2 microbe, the second-lowest in a four-class danger rating system

This parasitic infection usually is transmitted through the bite of the kissing bug (also known as the reduviid bug and the triatomine bug). The insect lives in cracks and holes in poor housing, where it bites people, often on the face, while they sleep. Occasionally, Chagas' is transmitted through blood transfusions, organ transplants, and from mother to child at birth. Recently, Brazilian health officials reported a widespread outbreak in which [Carlos Chagas]' apparently was transmitted orally through contaminated sugar cane juice. Brazil has banned the sale of the juice

Immediately, he said, investigators tracked down the woman to determine whether she was in fact infected with the strain. They asked her about her recent travels, contact with birds and when she first felt sick. They determined quickly that her respiratory symptoms were not from influenza. The origin of the 1957 strain remained mysterious. Dr. [Frank Plummer] said his team called the center in Atlanta on March 26. By April 8, Canadian epidemiologists had traced the strain to the specimens sent out by the College of American Pathologists in Northfield, Ill., which had ordered them from Meridian. Dr. Jared N. Schwartz, a microbiologist and official of the College of American Pathologists, said his group asked Meridian to include a type A influenza virus in the test kit, but did not specify which strain. When Meridian checked a United States government manual, he said, its team found that the A(H2N2) strain could be sent to laboratories as a biosafety Level 2 microbe, the second-lowest level of danger in a four-class rating. Dr. Plummer agreed, saying, ''Meridian made an error in choosing the A(H2N2) virus to send out.'' The strain was listed as A(H3N2), a common strain, on the permit forms for customs, Dr. Plummer said

[Maurice Hilleman] developed 8 of the 14 vaccines routinely recommended: measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae bacteria (which brings on a variety of symptoms, including inflammation of the lining of the brain and deafness). He also developed the first generation of a vaccine against rubella, or German measles. The vaccines have virtually vanquished many of the once-common childhood diseases in developed countries. Hilleman overcame immunological obstacles to combine vaccines so that one shot could protect against several diseases, like the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. One of Hilleman's goals was to develop the first licensed vaccine against any viral cancer. He achieved it in the early 1970s, developing a vaccine to prevent Marek's disease, a lymphoma cancer of chickens caused by a member of the herpes virus family. Preventing the disease helped revolutionize the economics of the poultry industry

[Maurice Hilleman], a microbiologist who developed vaccines for mumps, measles, chickenpox, pneumonia, meningitis and other diseases, saving tens of millions of lives, died on Monday at a hospital in Philadelphia. He was 85. Hilleman developed eight of the 14 vaccines routinely recommended: measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae bacteria (which brings on a variety of symptoms, including inflammation of the lining of the brain and deafness). One of Hilleman's goals was to develop the first licensed vaccine against any viral cancer. He achieved it in the early 1970s, developing a vaccine to prevent Marek's disease, a lymphoma cancer of chickens caused by a member of the herpes virus family. Preventing the disease helped revolutionize the economics of the poultry industry

Dr. [Maurice Ralph Hilleman] developed eight of the 14 vaccines routinely recommended: measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae bacteria (which brings on a variety of symptoms, including inflammation of the lining of the brain and deafness). He also produced the first generation of a vaccine against rubella, or German measles