With the development of sophisticated techniques in the biology of conception, fetal research, sustaining life after functional death, and abortion, legal and ethical questions face the medical community. (JD)

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Pao's "quality filter" selection method is re-examined as to its effectiveness in selecting papers that not only are of use to medical educators but to researchers as well. It is concluded that the method does provide the librarian with a tool for forming a highly selective bibliography in a particular medical literature without need for…

The medical scientist program at the Duke University School of Medicine was designed to prepare students with clinical experience for careers in basic science, clinical teaching, and investigation. The career selections and professional activities of graduates and the factors that may have influenced their career choices are examined. (MLW)

A new method of multiple discriminant analysis allows a mixture of continuous and discrete predictors. It handles conditional, joint, or separate sampling. Subjects and criterion groups are represented as points in a multidimensional Euclidean space. Advantages of the method, deriving from Akaike Information Criterion model evaluation, are…

The Framingham Heart Study pioneered the concept of risk factors. This article recaps the history of the study, describes poster and essay contests used to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the study, and outlines the involvement of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in school health research. (Author/MT)

Discusses issues and the public's concerns related to using laboratory animals for research purposes. Indicates that several perceptions (such as recognizing that the public's attitudes toward respect for animal life are no more irrational than many broader attitudes toward the sacredness of life) characterize the most responsible of recent…

Describes a study which compared the height, weight, and prevalence of protein-calorie malnutrition in South African Negro and white preschool children from rural and urban communities. (SF)

Reports a study in which the statural growth of more than 10,000 lower-income black and white children was compared by age and sex. (Author/SF)

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)