InteliHealth Connect for 01/06/2000

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Today's Issue

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* Hypertension Studied By Country

* Strep Prevention In Pregnancy Is Resulting In Fewer Newborn Deaths

* Study: Ultrasound Can Detect Serious Anemia In Fetuses

* Mouse Study Could Lead To " Male Pill "

* Gene Therapy Corrects Skin Defect In Mice

* Influenza Is The True Y2K Bug

Today In Health History

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The ABCs Of Genetics

Har Gobind Khorana began his education in a tiny village in

Punjab (now Pakistan), under a tree, where classes were held. He

would later become a professor of biology and chemistry at MIT,

as well as the winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or

medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg and W. Holley.

He began working on the synthesis of enzymes while a student at

the University of Liverpool, and in 1959, he synthesized coenzyme

A. This led to his deciphering the genetic code by synthesizing

all of the trinucleotide combinations in ribonucleic acid (RNA).

In awarding the Nobel Prize, Reichard of the Karolinska

Institute, compared nucleic acid and proteins to language and

their building blocks to the letters of the alphabet. Reichard

called Khorana's work a " prerequisite for the final solution of

the genetic code. " Khorana was born on Jan. 9, 1922.

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Today's Top Stories

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Hypertension Studied By Country

(The Associated Press) — American and Northern European men with

high blood pressure are three times more likely to die of a heart

attack than men with the same blood pressure from Japan or the

Mediterranean coast of Europe, researchers reported today in the

New England Journal of Medicine.

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Strep Prevention In Pregnancy Is Resulting In Fewer Newborn Deaths

(The Associated Press) — A U.S. public health effort to detect

and treat streptococcus B in pregnant women has cut the rate of

strep in newborns by 65 percent, a study found.

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Study: Ultrasound Can Detect Serious Anemia In Fetuses

(The Associated Press) — Ultrasound can detect virtually all

cases of life-threatening anemia in fetuses, sparing many

pregnant women the need for a riskier surgical test, a study

found.

http://www.intelihealth.com/enews?261662

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Mouse Study Could Lead To " Male Pill "

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — The results of a study in mice may

point the way to an effective 'male Pill,' researchers report.

http://www.intelihealth.com/enews?261564

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Gene Therapy Corrects Skin Defect In Mice

NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists have made albino mice grow a few black

hairs by fixing a genetic defect, a possible step toward treating

some human hereditary skin diseases, researchers say.

http://www.intelihealth.com/enews?261644

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Influenza Is The True Y2K Bug

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — They are the familiar sights and sounds of

winter: the sniffling nose, the dry, throaty voice and the

grimace that follows a swallow of medicine. Better get used to

them, health officials say. The flu, which struck the West hard

last month, has arrived like a storm along the East Coast,

filling hospital waiting rooms and doctors' offices with ailing

patients.

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Today's News Minute From s Hopkins

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Hopkins: Context Is Everything

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January 6, 1999

BALTIMORE (s Hopkins) - Any law student will tell you:

hearsay testimony is inadmissible. But not always in the case of

children. In many jurisdictions, a parent, social worker or

psychologist can take the stand and testify that " ny told me

this " or " Sally said that. " But can the adult's memory be

trusted?

s Hopkins psychologist Dr. Maggie Bruck recently conducted

tests that cast some doubt. When asked to recount very recent

conversations with children, adults often got the gist of it

right, but were vague about how the information came out. It

wasn't always clear whether a child was offering plain truth or

responding to unintentional coaxing by the adult. Dr. Bruck

says testimony repeated from kids needs to carefully recorded.

" It really has to be electronically recorded in these

professional settings since the very, very first interviews. And

that really has to be done. I don't see any excuse for that not

to happen, " says Dr. Bruck.

Dr. Bruck says she doesn't think that hearsay testimony from

children should be disallowed ... just collected and treated with

caution.

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