August 23, 1966, NIH Record, Vol. XVIII, No. 17

FILE copy ecor U . 5. D EPA RTM EN T OF Augus t 23, 1966 N ATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH H EALTH. E DUCATION. ANO W ELF ARE Vol. XVIII, No. 17 PUBLIC HEAL TH SERVIC E Suggestion System NIDR Reorganized Change Seeks to To Spur Attack Speed New Ideas On Dental Ills A more effective attack on the The DREW Suggestion System Nation's dental ills, which each is now being administered inde year cost Americans $2.5 billion, pendently of the I ncentive Awards was announced recently by Dr. System under new procedures out William H. Stewart, Surgeon Gen lined in the HEW General Admin eral of the Public Health Service. istration Manual (Chapter 8-90; This is the aim, he said, of the PHS Supplement Chapter 8-00). recent reorganization of the grant According to W. K. Holl, Chief supported research and educationi,I of the Management Policy Branch, programs of the National Institute OA:\l, who was recently named of Dental Research. Suggestion Coordinator for NIH, Dr. Stewart fur ther noted thnt the reason for the DHE\V change the reorganization will help to b,>t over is to stimulate employe inter ter define ar·cas of needed resear~h est and participation in the Sug and spur studies on these problems. gestion System, especially among A patient unde rgoes hea rt cathete rization in the Surgical Wing of the CC . It will also help identify those re members of the professional staff, Guided by fluoroscopy on TV screen, the doctor threods o cothe ter into heart search contributions which have and to eliminate delays between chambers ta diag nose de fects. The new automatic heort-trocking system helps the receipt of suggestions and ac cardiologists study heart problems.- Photo by Sam Silverman. tion upon them. Dy Tony Anastasi COs Eligible An automatic "heart-tracking" system that may prove to be a useful It is pointed out that for the tool for analysis of the motions of t:he heart and other internal organs first time PHS commissioned of has been developed by biomedical engineers in the Division of Research ficers are eligible to participate in Services. the Suggestion System along with The system, which uses a tele all other full-time and part-time vision video signal from the X-ray Mr. Barrett, who will be a soph employes of NIH. The only excep fluoroscope to track and record omore next fall at the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, is tions are persons serving in a con heart motion, was developed by Dr. Krcshove r Dr. Driscoll sultant capacity. William Schuette, Bob Gibbons, studying elect rical engineering and working at NIH during the sum To implement the speed-up in Homer Chalifoux and Mike Bar promise for application in the com mer months. processing suggestions, it is being rett, all of the DRS Biomedical munity and hasten the availability proposed that authority to approve Engineering and Instrumentation Used in Heart Study of their benefits. (Sec SUGGESTION, Pouo 7) Branch. The instrument is used to sup The development of scientific port 1,esearch being performed by manpower resources and the con Dr. Allen Simon of the Clinical duct and application of resea1ch Study Underway on Gout-Like Syndrome Center Diagnostic Radiology De- arc combined in four major pro 'lopartmcnt. gram areas covering: 1) denLal That Causes Retardation in Male Infants "With this new system, cardi caries and bard tissue studies , ologists arc able to study t he mo 2) periodontal disease and soft t1s- A field study team of medical investigators from the general clinical tions of the beating heart and ana research center at the University of Miami recently began tracing vic lyze the measurements by playing tims of a strange, gout-like syndrome that causes seve1,e mental retarda back the TV tape," said Mr. tion and cerebral palsy in male in in the blood. Schuette. fants, the Public Health Service Prior to development of this new announced recently. H igh ulic acid levels in adults produce a different disease called system, radiologists had no con- Team Visits 2 States gout, a painful arth1·itic condition (See BIOMEDICAL, Paue $ ) The team, composed of pedjatri caused by the accumulation of cians, social workers and nurses, urate crystals around the joints. traveled for a week through Ala Abnorma lities Caused BULLETIN bama and Florida to examine mem Dr. Likins Dr. Malone bers of several families in whom In infants, elevated uric aci<l We regret to announce the almost half of the male children levels or metabolic abnormalities death on Tuesday (August l6) sue studies, 3) Oro-facial growth are suspected of having the disease. that cause high levels apparently of Dr. Robert P. Grant, Direc and development, and 4) bioma ha,·e toxic effects on the developing tor of the National Heart In terinls and special field projects. T he primary symptoms of the brain and bring about mental re stitute since March 8th of this Emphasizing program breadth, syndrome, which appear at about tardation and cerebral palsy. Usu year. D1·. Robert W. Berliner each area will include a funda the age of 4 months, are severe ally the condition becomes so se will be Acting Director of mental, undifferentiated research mental retardation coupled with vere that victims must be institu- the Heart Institute. component, as well as basic, clin- abnormally high levels of uric acid (Scc RETARDATION, /'age 6) (S ee REOllG.-1,NIZATION, Page 5) Page 2 August 23, 1966 TEIE NIEi RECORI\. Extended Periods of High Temperalure And Little Rain Damage Trees at NIH Ily Eve Cutler Summer InfQ•rm,ation Train,ee ~lll~ecordPublished bi-weekly at Bethesda, Md., by th<.1 Public Information Section, The prolonged high temperatures and drought conditions this summer Office of Rt>search ·Information, for the information of employee~ of the and over the past four years have taken their toll not only in the short National Institutes of Henlth, principal research center of the Public ening of human tempers but in the weakening of trees and other plants Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and on the NIH reservation. circulated by request to all news media and interested members of the Sueh a lengthy period of heat and drought has seldom been experienced medical- nnd science-related fields. The NIH Remrd content is reprinl in Washington, What the final ef able without permission and its pictures are available on request. fects rm the tn!ls will he cannot the immediate effects of lack of be predicted with any degree of NIB Record Office.............................. Bldg. 31, Rm. 4813. Phone: 49-62125 moisture but also the resultant certainty. weakening of the trees, he said, Editor . .. .. .. .... .. E. Kenneth Stabler The large trees are being hard making them easy prey to insects Staff Correspondents est hit because their roots al'e deep and disease. r.P.orgia11a Brimijoin, NCI; Tony Anastasi, DRS; Bowen Hosford, CC; and much moisture is necessary to Nor is the damage entirely due Mary Anne Gates, NIAMD; Marie Norris, NTDR; Ed Long, NIMH; penetrate the soil deeply enough t.o t-0 the lack of rain. Man has com Robert SchreihHr, NINDB: :Martha Mader, NIAID; Faye Peterson, DDS; reach them, according- to Milford pounded the problem by excavating Wanda Warddell, NIGMS; Beverly Warran, DRFR; Dick Turlington, D. Myers, Chief of tlie Grounds the land for construction of uew D~q.; Gary Goldsmith, NHI; Francel! Mills, OAM; Dan Rogers, NICHD; Maintenance and Landscaping Sec buildings, thus damaging many of tion of the Division of Research T~NIH Record rt>scnes the right to rnal,e corrections, changes or the feeder roots closer to the sur Se-i-vices. f ace and lowering local water d.,Jrtiun• in suhmitted copy in conformity with the policy of the paper The damage is due not only to and the Department of Health, Education. and Welfare. tables. Dr. Cosmldes Speaks at Leaves A~e S.:orched Dr. Delashmutt Is Reassigned The loss of these roots has lim NEWS/rom Toxicology Conference ited the ability of plants to main Snrg. Gen. Willi>im H. Stewart fa.in the water supply that keeps hus nnnounccd the appointment of Dr. George J. Cosmides, coor the leaf temperature down, there Dr. Robert E. DeLashmutt to the dinator of Pharmacology-Toxicol hy ie>.1.11sing the le.aves to sco1·ch. PERSONNEL Office of the Surgeon General. In ogy programs for the National In What little rain we have had Pr.rt f! of i! parts -a continua his new pc,sL, Dr. DHLaKhmutt will ~titul-e of General l\Iedical Sciences, has saturafod the sudac1c> b11t has tion of reminder~ crmcerniug po bo Spcciul Assistant to Deputy emphasized the need for compre not been sufficient to roach the litical activity that appeared in Surg-. Gen. Leo J. Gehrig. hensive training and increased deep root system. the Aug·. 9 issue of the NJ/I With the PHS since HJ49, Dr, manpower in toxicology in an ad DHL,rnhmutt ~erved most rHcently d rn~s "t the 1D66 Gordon Research The steps that have been taken Record: to alleviate this situation bv the in the Service's Division of Hos Conference on Toxicology and 11, The Civil Service Commissicm Grounds Maintenance and Land p;tals w herH hE wa~ A ssi~tant Safety Evalu atitms in Meriden, has cun$istently expre5sed the view scaping Section are many and Chief for the past ~·ear. N.H., Aug. 8-1~. · that it believes all citizens should varied, Mr. Myers explained. Tn disc11ssing "Training in Toxi be encouraged to register and to Weather-proofing sprays have vote, and that no impediment cology," Dr.

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