Philip Handler, President of the National Academy of Sciences, feels that the Nixon administration's budget may drive academic biomedical research into chaos. (Author/PG)

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)

Paper reports on the patterns of heavy use of two drugs, marihuana and alcohol, in relation to a variety of demographic, social, and personal factors. (Author)

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)

TCDC electrophysiologic recordings, histamine wheal tests, eosinophile counts, blood cortisol determinations, and behavioral observations were conducted on 15 autistic children and on controls to study several interrelationships, particularly malabsorption and cerebral dysfunction. (Author)

Reviews three years of research on the effects of marihuana in man. Previously known clinical mental and physical effects have been confirmed. Causes and mechanisms of these effects generally remain undetermined in man and animals. Social implications and long term effects require additional study, although usage appears detrimental. (JM)

The Veterans Administration-medical school relationship is described as "cooperative and commensal." It is suggested that these cooperative ventures must be based on the premise that each operates for common goals from different power bases under different statutory and regulatory authority. (MLW)