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Dr. Francis B. Trudeau, founding president of the Trudeau Institute, a research organization in Saranac Lake, N.Y., that specializes in determining how the body's immune system is damaged by disease, died on Tuesday at the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake. He was 75 and lived in Saranac Lake. Dr. Trudeau came from a long line of doctors. His grandfather, Edward Livingston Trudeau, who suffered from tuberculosis, pioneered in treating tuberculosis patients with fresh air and rest. He established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and created the first research laboratory for tuberculosis in the United States. The sanitarium later was named the Trudeau Sanitarium in his honor. In addition to his son, Dr. Trudeau is survived by his second wife, Ursula Wyatt Trudeau, and two daughters, Jeanne Fenn, a photographer, and Michelle Trudeau, a correspondent for National Public Radio, and five grandchildren. His marriage to Jean Moore Amory of Vero Beach, Fla., ended in divorce in 1960.

A team led by Steven A. Goldman at Cornell University Medical College has discoverd that the adult human brain has the capacity to grow new brain cells at any point throughout life. Overturning long-held scientific dogma that the brain's cellular composition is fixed and nonplastic and that new neurons cannot be generated in the adult nervous system, the find opens new avenues into research to repair damaged human brain cells

BIRD BRAIN: Sixty-year-old scam helps researchers debunk dogma that brain can't grow new cells. The scam occurred in the 1930s. Now, 60 years later, it has led to the discovery that the adult human brain has the capacity to grow new brain cells at any point in life. Taking off from the knowledge gained in the canary scam that testosterone can enlarge the area of the brain where song originates, a team led by Dr. Steven A. Goldman at Cornell University Medical College in New York City has discovered that the brain harbors precursor nerve cells

In an unusual disciplinary action, a Harvard teaching hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where two patients received large overdoses of an anti-cancer drug, has been put on probation by the country's leading agency for certifying hospital quality. The action has no immediate effect on the cancer center's care. But if the unspecified problems that led to the action are not corrected within six months, the institute could lose accreditation and risk losing payments from the Federal Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs. The action was based on findings from a surprise inspection made at the Dana-Farber Institute on April 4 by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. It is a private organization in Chicago, generally known as the Joint Commission, which is made up of representatives of the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association and other leading health care organizations. Relatively few of the 5,300 hospitals certified by the Joint Commission are put on such probation. And the action is all the more striking because it involves the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the country's most prestigious cancer centers and a Harvard teaching hospital. Gina Vild, a spokeswoman for Dana-Farber, said Saturday she did not know whether her hospital or any other Harvard-affiliated hospital had ever previously been put on probation by the commission. She referred such questions to the joint commission. But its officials did not return repeated telephone calls Sunday

In an unusual disciplinary action, a Harvard teaching hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where two patients received large overdoses of an anti-cancer drug, has been put on probation by the country's leading agency for certifying hospital quality. The action was based on findings from a surprise inspection made at the Dana-Farber Institute on April 4 by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. It is a private organization in Chicago, generally known as the Joint Commission, which is made up of representatives of the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association and other leading health-care organizations. Relatively few of the 5,300 hospitals certified by the Joint Commission are put on such probation. And the action is all the more striking because it involves the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the country's most prestigious cancer centers and a Harvard teaching hospital

In an unusual disciplinary action, a Harvard teaching hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where two patients received large overdoses of an anti-cancer drug, has been put on probation by the country's leading agency for certifying hospital quality. If the problems are not corrected within six months, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations could revoke the hospital's accreditation

A blood specimen kept frozen for more than three decades and tested with techniques developed only in the last few years has led to the discovery of three previously unknown hepatitis viruses. Abbott Laboratories, which discovered the viruses, are conducting studies to determine how often the virus makes people sick, which groups of people are most affected and how the viruses are transmitted

The story of how researchers at Abbott Laboratories came to identify three new hepatitis viruses using blood that had been taken from a man in the early 1960s is briefly related

It is not known where the virus came from or why it suddenly appeared in Australian horses. The virus jumped species to infect two men who had contact with the sick horses: a 49-year-old horse trainer and 40-year-old stable hand. The trainer died from a severe lung infection known as interstitial pneumonia. The stable hand recovered. LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

A mysterious outbreak of a deadly disease that killed one man and 14 racehorses and then subsided as inexplicably as it began has been traced to a new virus by researchers in Australia, where the outbreak occurred. The virus, which has not been named, was found to have the characteristics of the morbilliform family, which includes the measles virus, the researchers reported in yesterday's issue of Science. It is the first new virus in the family to attack humans since what is now known as measles was identified in the 10th century. Diagnostic tests developed by [Keith] Murray's team showed that the outbreak was over quickly. No other cases were found in horses or humans. But the team was unable to establish where the virus came from and it can't explain why the virus suddenly appeared in horses in Australia