Publications

deposition of natural radon daughters in human subjects.		1967	5230380
human pasteurellosis in new york state.		1966	5222727
establishing staffing criteria for evaluating nursing service functions--a management engineering contribution.		1970	5201751
hospital management engineering and nursing services.		1970	5201750
hospital management engineering and nursing services. philosophy.		1970	5201744
effecting changes in design of nursing service functions.		1970	5201742
strontium-90 in human vertebrae. results for 1968. hasl-210.		1969	5196636
strontium-90 in human vertebrae--1967 results. hasl-197.		1968	5188572
strontium-90 in human vertebrae. 1966 results. hasl-182.		1967	5187197
evaluation of human behavior.		1971	5171053
strontium-90 in human vertebrae, 1968, 1969, and 1970.		1972	5015505
characteristics of an echovirus type 30 strain isolated during an epidemic of aseptic meningitis in new york in 1968.		1971	4994458
isolation of hartmannella species from human throats.		1967	4964571
john martin and the million dollar cure.		1970	4912587
new dimensions in legal and ethical concepts for human research. 1. ethical and legal base lines for professions and community. panel discussion.		1970	4907475
clinical research in achieving the right to health.		1970	4907472
good news on poly-i:c.		1970	4907287
the human figure drawing test and academic outcome in medical school.		1969	4900155
e. l. thorndike: the psychologist as professional man of science.		1968	4872994
low income and barriers to use of health services.		1968	4866348
why prisoners volunteer to be experimental subjects.		1967	4860805
powassan virus infection. a report of three human cases of encephalitis.		1974	4856896
teaching principles of medical ethic curricula.		1974	4818472
spontaneous fetal death in man.		1973	4789395
nonprofessional human-service personnel in consulting roles.		1973	4762022
strontium-90 in human vertebrae, 1971.		1973	4754988
the binding of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate as a conformational probe of human hemoglobins.		1973	4729524
control of human hemoglobin synthesis: translation of globin chains in heterozygotes with hemoglobin riverdale-bronx.		1973	4724601
so2 levels and perturbations in mortality. a study in the new york-new jersey metropolis.		1973	4722868
fallout 137 cs levels in man over a 12 yr period.		1973	4707672
workshop airs patients' rights.		1973	4685664
linkage between the mn- and hb beta-loci?		1972	4670077
a cold but heart-warming experience.		1974	4618039
human potato consumption and neural-tube malformation.		1974	4610879
lead contamination in milks fed to infants: 1972-1973. comments.		1974	4590728
a magnificent human achievement.		1972	4574615
jule nydes: psychologist, psychoanalyst, human being.		1973	4572253
the preservation of human cadaver kidneys for transplantation.		1972	4550964
sick pets and human leukemia.		1973	4511941
epidemic of echovirus type 9 infection. certain clinical and epidemiologic features.		1973	4510097
human factors in testing and implementation of a systems design.		1973	4496523
organizing on abortion service.	the author, a nurse, describes her experience in planning and operating an abortion clinic, parkmed, in mid-manhattan, new york. parkmed, established in 1971, treats 450 patients a week and is staffed by more than 50 professional and technical employees. the formulation of policies of the clinic and the efforts involved in finding the right offices and developing floor plans which would meet the needs of an abortion clinic are described. the clinic has a total of 35 rooms including 9 procedur ...	1973	4489091
the characterization of variants of human hemoglobin a2.		1974	4472352
seasonal effects on human mortality.		1974	4465873
strontium-90 in human vertebrae, 1972.		1974	4428002
letter: trypanosomiasis in primates, human and subhuman, in india.		1974	4420113
sounding board. deeper into abortion.		1974	4418905
lead concentrations in human milk.		1974	4414068
lead contamination in milks fed to infants: 1972-1973. review by the committee on nutrition.		1974	4405884
lead contamination in milks fed to infants: 1972-1973. further comments.		1974	4405883
lead contamination in milks fed to infants: 1972-1973.		1974	4405882
immunologic factors involved in the growth of primary tumors in human or animal hosts.		1969	4390408
prisons, adolescents, and the right to quality medical care: the time is now.		1974	4371407
psychiatry, through mental health to human services--what next?		1972	4350288
abo blood groups and viral diseases.		1972	4336480
zoster, reinfection or activation of latent virus? observations on the antibody response.		1970	4320119
the virus watch program: a continuing surveillance of viral infections in metropolitan new york families. 3. preliminary report on association of infections with disease.		1966	4286697
the virus watch program: a continuing surveillance of viral infections in metropolitan new york families. ii. laboratory methods and preliminary report on infections revealed by virus isolation.		1966	4286696
planning a more effective health care system: comment.		1973	4267155
immune globulins to coxiella burneti in man determined by radioisotope precipitation technic.		1969	4185865
letter: report of down's syndrome during a period of suspected increase in trisomy 18.		1974	4132010
human cytogenetics: trends and techniques.		1973	4131375
salmonellosis in livestock and man.		1972	4114740
trisomy 18 in new york state.		1971	4107604
influenza and neural-tube defects.		1971	4105702
relationship between the influenza pandemic and the epidemic of neurological malformations.		1971	4102865
trisomy 18.		1971	4099232
isotopic u concentration in human blood from new york city donors.		1985	4077531
salmonella serotypes from animals in new york state, 1978-1983.	the salmonella serotypes isolated during 1978 to 1983 at the diagnostic and clinical laboratories of the new york state college of veterinary medicine from animal sources in new york state were reviewed and compared to earlier data from new york state animals and to national data for both human and animal sources. a total of 255 salmonella strains were studied from the six year period and included 33 serotypes. salmonella enteritidis ser typhimurium continued to be the most commonly reported ser ...	1986	3940747
polychlorinated biphenyl congeners (pcbs), p,p'-dde and hexachlorobenzene in human milk in three areas of upstate new york.		1985	3929701
pcb-containing transformer fires: decontamination guidelines based on health considerations.	realization that polychlorinated biphenyl-(pcb)-containing (askarel) transformer fires can produce toxic polychlorinated dibenzofuran (pcdf) and polychlorinated dibenzodioxin (pcdd) isomers has led to efforts to develop guidelines for cleanup of structures contaminated by soot from these fires. two such fires have occurred in the united states in recent years, one in 1981 in binghamton, n.y., the other in 1983 in san francisco. the phenomenon of pcb transformation to more toxic substances under ...	1985	3925096
sources and fate of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, dibenzofurans and related compounds in human environments.	several of the major incidents resulting in potential human exposures to polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (pcdds) and/or polychlorinated dibenzofurans (pcdfs), polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) and related compounds which have occurred in the u.s. in recent periods have resulted from improper disposal of hazardous chemical wastes. prominent examples of such environmental contamination episodes are the love canal, into which ton quantities of chlorinated organic compounds containing substantial conc ...	1985	3921357
[the man behind the syndrome: burril b. crohn. a legend in his time and the greatest pr resource at mount sinai hospital].		1985	3892199
the multihandicapped child with congenital rubella: impact on family and community.	in 1967, a hospital-based education program was created to provide services to multihandicapped children with congenital rubella syndrome (crs). since then 214 children have been enrolled, including 126 (59%) with laboratory-documented congenital rubella infection. an assessment of the ongoing training and life needs of those children with crs enrolled in the program and the concomitant impact on families and community facilities has documented the general failure of the children to progress tow ...	1985	3890103
hideyo noguchi's luetin experiment and the antivivisectionists.		1985	3888912
[albert müller-deham--an unjustly forgotten austrian pioneer in geriatrics].	albert mueller-deham played a role of great importance in the history of american and general geriatrics. he was born in 1881 in vienna where he studied medicine. after graduation he was an intern, and later assistant professor at the first university department of medicine in vienna. among his teachers were such famous names as von nothnagel, von noorden und wenckebach. in 1925 he was appointed chief of the medical department in the large, renowned "versorgungsheim lainz" in vienna and became d ...	1985	3887766
human biology and epidemiology of childhood bone cancers: a review.		1985	3886519
human leukocyte antigen associations in basal cell carcinoma.	basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer and is one in which both host and environmental factors are thought to play a role in its pathogenesis. for an investigation of the role of human leukocyte antigen (hla)-associated variations in genetic susceptibility, thirty-one patients with multiple basal cell carcinomas were typed for hla-a, b, c, and dr antigens. patients were compared with both local and appropriate ethnic group controls. no statistically significant association w ...	1985	3874217
sex-education needs and interests of high school students in a rural new york county.	seventy-five boys and 88 girls from three high schools in a rural county of new york state took a sex-education quiz and were asked to describe their sexual and contraceptive experiences and sex-education interests. consistent with most previous research, nonvirgin teenagers who earned better grades on the sex-education quiz failed to use more effective contraceptives than nonvirgins who had performed poorly on the quiz. there was a striking similarity among students' descriptions of sex-educati ...	1985	3841258
leads from the mmwr. human immunodeficiency virus infection in transfusion recipients and their family members.		1987	3820500
chromosomal polymorphisms of 1, 9, 16, and y in 4 major ethnic groups: a large prenatal study.	using trypsin giemsa banding (gtg), major polymorphisms of the constitutive heterochromatin regions of chromosome 1, 9, 16, and y were recorded in a new york city population. polymorphisms were recorded from amniotic fluid specimens received from 6,250 patients from 4 major population groups, ie, white (european)-2,334 cases, american black-1,795 cases, hispanic descent-1,737 cases, and asian (oriental and indian)-384 cases. the major chromosomal polymorphisms were classified as follows: obvious ...	1987	3812584
when people die. cause of death versus time of death.	a sample of 4,920 disease-related deaths from new york city for 1979 (8.7 percent of all relevant data from new york city's files) showed a 60 percent rise in death rate beginning at 2 a.m. and reaching a peak at 8 a.m. a smaller peak was also noted at 6 p.m. the rise in human mortality beginning at 2 a.m. and peaking at 8 a.m. might be explained by: artifact of deaths occurring anytime during the night that are discovered after daybreak, effect of less efficient health care between 2 a.m. and 8 ...	1987	3812519
north american brugian filariasis: report of nine infections of humans.	nine people living in rhode island, new york, pennsylvania, florida, or california acquired autochthonous brugian filariasis. each patient had an enlarged lymph node containing a single worm or, in one patient, a pair of worms. most worms were in lymphatic vessels within the node, but two worms were in the substance of the node. ten worms were studied, seven female and three male. female worms contained paired uteri that occupied most of the body cavity of the worm, and male worms contained a si ...	1986	3789271
aids, social sciences, and health education: a personal perspective.	the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) epidemic has raised numerous ethical issues. above all, it has served to highlight the fact that individual liberty always exists in a precarious balance with public interest. the invasion of privacy, loss of confidentiality, and coercive approaches proposed for testing and disclosure of infected individuals threaten to turn this into and underground epidemic. health education is the only feasible strategy for containing the aids epidemic at this ...	1986	3781856
influenza vaccine and pneumonia mortality in a nursing home population.	the effectiveness of immunization against influenza in elderly persons is uncertain. a retrospective cohort study in a new york city nursing home examined the occurrence of pneumonia and its related mortality over three consecutive influenza seasons (nov 1 through april 30, 1979 to 1980, 1980 to 1981, and 1981 to 1982). nearly one half of approximately 450 residents (mean age, 84 years) accepted immunization each year. the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups were similar. the attack rate of pneum ...	1986	3778069
saving lives and protecting liberty: a comparative study of the seat-belt debate.	by the beginning of 1986 all but three states had taken some action on a mandatory seat-belt bill. the seat-belt debate is one manifestation of the concern over the relationship between lifestyle and disease, and has raised some of the most fundamental questions of politics and political philosophy: individual versus public responsibility in health promotion, and freedom versus compulsion. this article examines the debate from both a domestic (new york, illinois, oregon) and cross-national (grea ...	1986	3745844
the antiabortion movement and baby jane doe.	in the early 1980s, the leadership of the antiabortion movement became involved in a campaign to establish legal rights to extraordinary medical care for seriously handicapped newborns. armed with political contacts in the reagan administration and congress, and allied with advocates for the disabled, the antiabortion movement searched for a test case to guide through the courts. antiabortion advocate lawrence washburn found such a case in baby jane doe, who was being treated at stony brook medi ...	1986	3745839
adolescent pregnancy: networking and the interdisciplinary approach.	the networking approach to providing needed services to pregnant and parenting teenagers has numerous merits. an historical overview of the formation of the brooklyn teen pregnancy network highlights service agency need for information and resource sharing, and improved client referral systems as key factors in the genesis of the network. the borough-wide approach and its spread as an agency model throughout new york city's other boroughs and several other northeastern cities is also attributed ...	1986	3745501
prevalence of hair follicle mites, demodex folliculorum and d. brevis (acari: demodicidae), in a selected human population in western new york, usa.		1986	3735343
strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection in a patient with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.	severe infections with strongyloides stercoralis occur in immunocompromised patients. strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome complicated by gram-negative bacteremia and meningitis in a bisexual man with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) is described. increased awareness of this infection, which may also be sexually transmitted, is recommended when caring for patients with aids who are homosexual, or have resided in areas endemic for strongyloidiasis. multiple stool examinations shoul ...	1987	3674100
disease spectrum of yersinia enterocolitica serogroup 0:3, the predominant cause of human infection in new york city.		1987	3665514
mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. a review of 14 patients.	the clinical findings in 13 drug abusers and one homosexual man with tuberculosis and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) from new york city are described. tuberculosis preceded the diagnosis of aids in nine of the 14 patients by a mean of 7 months and occurred within the same month in the remaining five. the presence of thrush, generalised lymphadenopathy, lymphopenia, cutaneous anergy and chest radiographs showing hilar adenopathy and/or lower lobe infiltrates was common among the pa ...	1986	3660457
gonorrhea and syphilis in incarcerated urban adolescents: prevalence and physical signs.	during a 1-year period from july 1983 to june 1984, 285 adolescent girls and 2,236 adolescent boys, ranging in age from 9 to 18 years (89% were 14 to 16 years of age), were screened for gonorrhea and syphilis on entry into a detention facility in new york city. the prevalence rate for gonorrhea was 3% for boys and 18.3% for girls, and the prevalence rate for syphilis was 0.63% for boys and 2.5% for girls. the rates of gonorrhea without penile or cervical discharge on physical examination were 2. ...	1987	3658575
does the karyotype of a spontaneous abortion predict the karyotype of a subsequent abortion? evidence from 273 women with two karyotyped spontaneous abortions.	at least two spontaneous abortions were karyotyped in 273 women during cytogenetic surveys in new york city and honolulu. these pairs were analyzed using maximum-likelihood logistic-regression analysis to adjust for maternal age and location. there was a significantly increased risk for a chromosomally normal spontaneous abortion after a previous abortion with a normal karyotype. there was no increased risk for trisomy in a second spontaneous abortion following either a previous trisomic abortio ...	1987	3631080
immunizations among hospital personnel.	to minimize the likelihood of transmission of certain infectious diseases within the hospital, the 5 million us health care personnel are becoming a special target group for immunization programs. a review of immunizations conducted by a hospital employee health service demonstrated that 80% of hospital employees are adequately protected against tetanus/diphtheria, and 97% are immune to rubella. in contrast, only 28% of at-risk employees are immunized against hepatitis b and only 2% are immunize ...	1987	3598735
prevention, an institutional perspective: hospital/medical centres--a summary.		1987	3582335
methylene chloride mortality study: dose-response characterization and animal model comparison.	to assess the potential chronic health effects of methylene chloride, the mortality experience of a maturing 1964 to 1970 cohort of 1,013 hourly men was evaluated through 1984. on average, employees were exposed at a rate of 26 ppm (eight-hour time-weighted average) for 22 years; median latency was 30 years. compared with the general population, no statistically significant excesses were observed for such hypothesized causes as lung cancer (14 observed v 21.0 expected), liver cancer (0 v 0.8), a ...	1987	3559766
viral and bacterial organisms associated with acute pharyngitis in a school-aged population.	to investigate the causes and clinical characteristics of acute pharyngitis among school-aged children (4 to 18 years), we obtained throat cultures for respiratory viruses, mycoplasma pneumoniae, group a streptococcus, and chlamydia trachomatis from 320 patients with sore throat and 308 controls without respiratory complaints. the study was conducted from january to april 1985 in a private pediatric practice in central new york state. sixty percent of the patients and 26% of the control subjects ...	1986	3534196
spirochetes in ticks and antibodies to borrelia burgdorferi in white-tailed deer from connecticut, new york state, and north carolina.	ticks were screened for spirochetes and serum samples from white-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) were assayed for antibodies to borrelia burgdorferi during 1983-1984. using fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled rabbit antibodies produced to b. burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of lyme disease, spirochetes were detected in ixodes dammini (10.5% of 1,193) and dermacentor albipictus (0.6% of 157) adults from connecticut, i. dammini nymphs (49.1% of 108) and adults (64.7% of 99) from armonk, new yo ...	1986	3520030
neoplastic complications of htlv-iii infection. lymphomas and solid tumors.	neoplastic disease arose in 29 of 200 patients infected with human t lymphotropic virus type iii (htlv-iii) seen at a suburban hospital. seventeen patients had kaposi's sarcoma, one of whom also had colon carcinoma. nine patients had lymphoproliferative disorders (seven lymphomas, one t suppressor cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and one multiple myeloma), including three with concomitant kaposi's sarcoma and one with colon cancer. one other patient had colon cancer, one had a seminoma, and on ...	1987	3493690