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Ms211: News Clipping From 1993 Relevant To Our Interest In Chernobyl, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

example of one news story ... "Belarus plagued by lingering Chernobyl radiation, UPn 8/29/93 11:00 PM Belarus plagued by lingering Chernobyl radiation, infectious illnesses UPI NewsFeature (800) Adv. Mon. Aug. 30 or thereafter By VALENTINA STAROVA MOSCOW (UPI) -- The government of the former Soviet republic of Belarus recently issued chilling statistics that confirmed the worst fears of its readers about the legacy of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. The figures showed that thyroid cancer -- a rare but deadly illness often linked to radiation exposure -- is on the rise in Belarus, with almost as many new cases recorded …

Polymers, Encapsulation, And Artifical Organs (Report On Session 26.0), Paul R. Sanberg, Thomas B. Freeman, David W. Cahill

Neurosurgery and Brain Repair Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Neural Basis Of Behavior: Pharmacological Effects In Brain Injury And Degenerative Syndromes, Paul R. Sanberg

Neurosurgery and Brain Repair Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Study To Determine The Effects Of Client Participation In Care On Perceived Control/Powerlessness And Morale, Janis Marie Ormond

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Postpartum Health Care, Martha Brady, Beverly Winikoff

Reproductive Health

These proceedings come from papers and discussions as part of the Population Council invitational seminar entited "Rethinking Postpartum Health Care," in 1992. The seminar on postpartum reproductive health was the fifth in a series of seminars convened by the Population Council as part of its Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health and Population. The program focuses on four topics: 1) improving and devising new approaches to postpartum care; 2) improving the quality of care in family planning and reproductive health services; 3) managing unwanted pregnancy and preventing the consequences of unsafe abortion; and 4) bringing attention …

Persistent Emotional Disorder In Children With Neurological Soft Signs, Daniel Pine, David Shaffer, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

Provides clinical details in the form of 11 case vignettes from a prospective epidemiological study that found the combination of childhood 'soft' signs and anxious behavior to be a strong risk factor for adolescent emotional disorders. The original study conducted a neuropsychiatric assessment of 180 African-American adolescents (aged 16–18 yrs) who had been followed through childhood. The at-risk Ss exhibited a persistent and specific pattern of both motor abnormalities and anxiety, obsessional compulsive, or depressive symptoms over time. The form of at-risk Ss' neurological and psychiatric abnormalities is consistent with a link between motor system abnormalities and …

Comparison Of Primiparous Women's Expected And Experienced Pain In Labour, Shelagh Lawrence

Theses : Honours

Pain is a subjective phenomenon and is, in varying degrees, an inherent part of the childbirth experience. However, most Western societies view suffering as unacceptable and as such, regard analgesia as a necessity. Many women do not anticipate the intensity of pain experienced in childbirth and are, therefore, not ready to manage this amount of pain when it occurs. This prospective study compared the expected and experienced labour pain of 99 primiparous women, aged 17-40 years. The relationship between expected and experienced pain and acceptance of pregnancy; identification with the motherhood role; relationship with mother; relationship with husband/partner; preparation for …

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Winter - December 1992), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Winter - December 1992 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• President's Perspective: Strengthening Our Future - Annual Report
• PCOM Names New Dean
• New Chairman and Members Elected to Osteopathic Medical Center Boards
• Founders Day '93
• No Boundaries For Healing: Alumni Serve Worldwide
• Major General Blanck Comes Home to Walter Reed Command
• Alumnus Co-Authors Federal High Blood Pressure Report
• Just Published
• Class Acts
• In Memoriam
• Coming Events

Ms211: Trip Report On Initial Consortium Visit To Areas Effected By Chernobyl Accident, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

Armin's impressions of first visit to former USSR Russia, Ukraine and Israel by our group at that time referred to as International Consortium for Research and Treatment of Radiation... sent to Admiral Zumwalt (who also traveled to Moscow and Bryansk but not to Ukraine where Armin went with Boris Yoffe, also Larry Laufman and Phil McCarthy went from Russia to Israel with our Hadassah colleagues.) See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Ms211: Bryansk Early If Not Initial Visit, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

This may be my (Armin) initial trip notes/report from Bryansk and Kyiv. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Ms211: Notes About Early Contacts With Russian And Israel Investigators, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

Text includes key names from Russia Institute of Medial Radiology, and from Hadassah that surfaced as we held the Bryansk symposium. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Ms211: Gotto Update 10-29-1992 From Adw(Armin), Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

A note providing an update on the proposal to DOE and upcoming visit by Admiral Zumwalt and social events including Mayor Lanier and refers to my(Armin) planned trip to Russia and Ukraine. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Ms211: Agenda Thmrf For Oct 1992 Board Meeting, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

Board meeting that refers to DOE proposal, Visit to Russia, Israel and Ukraine. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Hyperparathyroidism With Normal Albumin-Corrected Total Calcium In Patients With Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, J. J. Shepherd, Bin Tean Teh, V. Parameswaran, R. David

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

In the largest reported family of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1), hyperparathyroidism was expressed at first screening in 33 patients by elevation of ionized calcium (IC) (30 cases) or parathyroid hormone (three cases) without elevation of albumin-corrected total calcium (ACTC). Three of these 33 patients have shown a progressive rise in IC and later an elevation of ACTC. However, the age distribution suggests that in others the level of IC may remain stable at a minimally elevated level throughout life with ACTC remaining normal except for transient rises at the times of intercurrent illness or surgical …

Development Of Periapical Lesions In Immunosuppressed Rats, Phillip A. Waterman Jr.

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The pathogenesis of periapical lesions is the interaction of the oral flora with the existing host defenses. The role of bacteria has been established in endodontic disease but the contribution of the host defenses in periapical lesion formation is less clear. The purpose of this study was to compare periapical lesion development in immunosuppressed rats with that in normal rats. Thirty-five, eight-week old Sprague-Dawley rats were equally divided into seven groups. Groups 1, 2, and 3 were given weekly injections of Cytoxan, an immunosuppressive agent. Groups 4, 5, and 6 received no immunosuppressive therapy. Group 7 served as a control, …

Renal Angiomyolipoma: An Uncommon Tumour, Zafar Nazir, Jamsheer J. Talati

Section of Urology

No abstract provided.

Shared Responsibility For Medication Use : An Experiment, Marjorie Tessner

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Medication adherence is an important part of effective therapy for gastrointestinal disease. Theory has suggested that the more involved the individual is in their care the more adherent they will be to their medication regime. However, such management is often complicated by patient psychological factors, health beliefs, self-efficacy, and lack of knowledge about medication.

In this experimental study of the impact of shared responsibility for medication use: an experiment, 60 patients from four ethnic groups were randomly assigned to three groups of 20 each: 1) routine discharge medication group, 2) formal education group, and 3) self medication and shared responsibility …

The Effect Of Electrical Stimulation Of The Dorsal Raphe Nucleus On Local Cerebral Glucose Metabolism And Epileptogenesis In The Rat, Clifford C. Douglas

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Anatomic connections between the dorsal raphé and the hippocampus have been described in the literature; however, the understanding of the functional importance of these connections is not complete. In these studies the "functional" raphé-hippocampal pathway was elucidated first by the 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2-DG) method, and second by the effect of dorsal raphé electrical stimulation on kindled seizure in the rat. In the 2-DG study, differences in local rates of cerebral glucose metabolism were quantified. The pattern of 2-DG uptake differed significantly from controls (animals with electrodes placed and not receiving an electrical stimulus) and subjects stimulated in the pontine oral reticular …

Cortisol In The Ovine Fetus : Its Regulation And Role In Parturition, Ede Marie Apostolakis

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

In fetal sheep, circulating cortisol increase during late gestation to abruptly rise 72 hours preceding birth. Although the surge in cortisol is thought to initiate the endocrine cascade which triggers parturition, it is not known what drives the prepartum rise in fetal cortisol. The first study tested the hypothesis that basal cortisol secretion is regulated by adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) which in turn, is controlled by arginine vasopressin (AVP). The fetus challenged with AVP increased plasma ACTH and cortisol concentrations. Pretreatment with an AVP V₁ receptor antagonist blocked AVP-induced plasma ACTH cortisol but failed to alter basal ACTH or cortisol. To …

Soft Tissue Changes Of The Upper Lip Following Isolated Le Fort I Osteotomies, Kendall E. James

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Pre-operative (T-1) and post-operative (T-3) radiographs were obtained and traced for fifty-one non-growing patients who had undergone isolated Le Fort I osteotomies. These tracings were then digitized with the results arranged in a data file and subjected to statistical analysis. The purpose of this study was to establish ratios for certain hard to soft tissue movements that could be used to aid the clinician in post-surgical soft tissue profile prediction. The results showed that even though a large sample was used, individual patient variability remained high particularly in the horizontal directions. Most ratios found in this study were consistent with …

Condylar Angulations As Related To Submental-Vertex Radiographs, Jady L. Chiakowsky

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Pretreatment submental-vertex radiographs were obtained for 637 adolescent patients (307 males, 330 females) who had presented themselves for orthodontic treatment. The purpose of this study was to: (1) determine the relationship between condylar angulations and depth of cut with the variables: age, sex, and race, and (2) establish normative values for the categories studied. The results indicated that no significant differences existed between the condylar angulations for the variables measured. However, significant differences did exist between the depth of cut for the variables measured and there was significant interaction between age and race with respect to the depth of cut. …

Ms211: Letter To Dr Louis Sullivan, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

This was a note sent to the Secretary of Health and Human Services seeing if he would like to offer a point of contact to our efforts noting that Dr Claude Lenfant (then NIH's Director of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute) who had agreed to assist. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Ms211: Agenda For Penchas Visit March 1992, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

This is the agenda for the March visit with Dr. Penchas who was the Director General of Hadassah from Israel. Includes schedule for Radio KTRH and various TMC and Hadassah and THMRF meetings. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Ms211: Texas Hadassah Medical Research Foundation (Thmrf) Board Announcing Foundation's Goals, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

This looks like draft Press Release piece of the announced the affiliation with The Methodist Hospital Health Care Network. Talks about initial plans to organize a conference, list of additional member of the effort, including a Tx Congressman Martin Frost as honorary member, and a report from an Israeli scientist from Hadassah Zeev Weshler on the issue facing them with immigrants to Israel from the contaminated areas. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Presentation And Evaluation Of Patients With Epidermoid Head And Neck Cancers, Michael S. Benninger

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Epidermoid cancer of the head and neck occurs most frequently in individuals with predisposing factors for neoplastic development. Primarily these include exposure to smoking and alcohol, although other predisposing factors may he present. Site-speciflc symptoms along with a history of predisposing environmental exposure can direct physicians to suspect head and neck cancer. Endoscopy and ancillary testing are performed for tumor staging and subsequent treatment planning.

Finding Hiv-Infected Women - The Clinician's Role, Mary Guinan

School of Public Health Faculty Research

An estimated 100,000 women are currently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States, and a great majority of them are unaware of their condition. Approximately 20,000 HIV-infected women were identified through publicly funded HIV screening programs in 1989 and 1990, and an unknown number through private screening. Because most HIV-infected women are believed to be in the lower socioeconomic strata, it is unlikely that a significant number were identified in the private sector. Therefore, up to 80% of HIV-positive women may not know they are infected.

Ms211: Background Examples Of Literature Searches On Topics Of Interest, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

A zip file of various literature searches & some resources related to our work related to exposure after the Chernobyl accident and as we began looking at helping in Semey Kazakhstan----a collection of literature reviews on various topics we were interested in... eg. establishing a registry of those exposed for longterm follow-up, what we knew about certain areas like genetics and some resources like "A Guide to Environmental Resources" on the Internet by Carol Briggs-Erickson and Toni Murphy which could be found on the Internet and was written to be used by researchers, environmentalists, teachers and any person who is …

Influence Of Donor Age On The Survival Of Human Embryonic Dopaminergic Neural Grafts, T. B. Freeman, G. M. Nauert, P. R. Sanberg, J. H. Kordower

Neurosurgery and Brain Repair Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ms211: Texas Hadassah Medical Research Foundation (Thmrf) Minutes Very Early On, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

These appear to show the initial key organizers and board members. Merilee Weiner as Executive Director, etc. Discussing early vision and plans not limited to Chernobyl but is was one of the items. See more at Armin Weinberg, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

Congenital Pyloric Atresia And Epidermolysis Bullosa, Zafar Nazir, Zeba Batool Attar, Farhat Moazam

Section of Paediatric Surgery

Congenital pyloric atresia with epidermolysis bul­losa is recognized as a rare but distinct entity which is uniformly fatal^1,2. Until 1990 only 20 cases have been reported in the English literature^3,4. We present an additional case managed at the Aga Khan University Hospital to demonstrate the difficulties encountered in the management of such infants.