A 15-year-old male suffering from a heart defect, intestinal problems, and generalized fatigue was shown to have the immunologic deficiency characteristic of intestinal lymphangiectasia. (DB)

Seven aspects of neuropsychology are discussed including modern trends in neuropsychology by Klaus Poeck, the behavioral effect s of commissural section by George Ettlinger and Colin B. Blakemore, neuropsychological studies of phantom limbs by Sidney Weinstein, and problems in the anatomical understanding of aphasias by Norman Geschwind. Also…

The sera of 53 patients with Down's syndrome and their families were tested for hepatitis-associated antigen. (Author)

Laron's syndrome, characterized by severe dwarfism, high circulating levels of immunoreactive growth hormone, and failure to generate somatomedin after administration of human growth hormone, was studied in a boy 7 1/2 years of age. (MC)

Urine samples of 668 Swedish children with progressive psycho-motor retardation, coarse facies, and, in some cases, skeletal changes and vacuolated lymphocytes, were examined by means of high voltage paper electrophoresis. (DB)

Evaluated is the treatment of diabetic retinopathy (blindness due to ruptured vessels of the retina as a side effect of diabetes), and described is a research project comparing two types of photocoagulation treatment. (DB)

Reported was the occurrence of an intense grey-brown discoloration of the skin, serum, and urine, and anemia in a premature infant when phototherapy was used to reduce hyperbilirubinemia. (CB)