f Aryusry OF CALIFORN a ) —— —_ feaeas f. ft . epraetie - ‘ =. LOS ANGELES PAVINE © CON ANGECES © RIMERSIDE 2 SAN DEFEG © ee SANTACRLZ SANTA BARBARA * n —O SAN FRANCISCO Menez an FOR THE HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA 90024 | ° wuote Meta. MD bla Mf Lewin, pb faris Mo Mfuse Mt D Ad auht & L PATHOLOGY eDIVISION OF SURGICA . UCLA . . Waler Fo Cendesn, M Dp, Chuef Paglia. wD Dawuths & Kunenthal, MD. ferry Waseman, SED. ; Wibem L. Welfon, MD. September 6, 1979 Hugh S. Pratt, M.D. Medical Department Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, L.I., N.Y. 11973 | — y ar | G REPOSITORY Brookhaven A . GOLLECTION weds Aiadsce BOX Non rnete Wh ool g. 0. Coon — No DER VECULS DoAAch E FOLDER —2*""7 7 — Files . Dear Hugh: many points As you requested, this is an attempt to summarize some of the recent several on ed discuss have regarding the Marshallese program that we ns eratio consid al politic that occasions. Many of us have come to realize future of course the ce influen as well as medical indications may heavily Regarding past activities, I think that the program could well benefit from @ greater dissemination of the enormous body of information that has already been generated. The comprehensive 20-year report compiled by Bob Conard was "a tremendous contribution, but extremely important observations regarding probable or possible medical trends, populations in jeopardy, etc., have emerged subsequently and should be promulgated more prominently. This might be accomplished with annual summaryreports to update the data already summarized in the Conard report, which could then serve. as the definitive reference for background studies. +I think it might be even more important, however, to publish more broadly in the general medical literature rather than only in BNL reports that generally aren't distributed as widely. Perhaps detailed annual BNL reports could be issued, and then cited as references in publications in the more open literature. I suspect a number of journals would welcome editorials or brief review articles on the subject, and these would reach an audience largely unaware of the events and their implications (which, in the aftermath of Three-Mile Island, take on added and current significance). A number of diverse medical and radiological meetings could also serve as useful forums for annual presentation and discussion of brief updates. - As members of a relatively closed (1.e., medical) society, I think we also have more than just a tendency to neglect the lay literature. It might be very useful to the program in general to have the public more aware of what c has occurred (and is occurring) with the Marshallese. Several good science writers who are widely syndicated could contribute considerably to this end, and a public appreciation might hopefully have a positive influence not cther- wise obtainable in Washington. Even brief articles authored by any of us BEST COPYAVAILABLE ewes tem, both. activities, so some of the following is written with deference to