Medicine:‘4
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. Sore,Japan):nad.be
rol
city” inthe study of:“the effects ‘of “atomic b
“used as a“cont
aor
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‘survivors at Hiroshima ‘and Nagasaki.’“Intrinsic controls" will
“ii the future.
Conference of industrial health personnel.
Plans are beigdg made
Commission (Restricted)" on Friday, April 27,1951, during the In
Health Conference at Atlantic City.
‘purvey of physicians connected with the “AEC.
in order t
to furnish the NSRB with pertinent information about physicians
-withthe AEC, program questionnaires have been distributed to ma
tractors and to Operations Offices.
Therapy of radiation injury.
,
‘Thé experimental results off
ained
during the past year toward the treatment and amelioration of t Penuf.
‘resulting from ‘exposure to near lethal doses of radiation have
Energy Project.
period definitive recommendations for the treatment of human at
ties.
“Biophysics
University of Utah Project. A meetingwas held at the
iversity
of Utah Project to inspectthe site, and to discuss with inter ted persons from the University, Los Alamos, and the New York Operatic 6B Office
the details of the experiment which is designed to obtain more substantial
data on the biological effects of chronic exposures of animals to plutonium, radium, and mesothorium. The project will be under the arection
of Dr. John Z. Bowers, formerly Deputy Director of the Divisio of Biology
and Medicine, and now Dean of the School of Medicine of the Un versity of
Utah. With the cooperation of various members of the Universi y faculty,
Dr. Bowers will conduct one of the most important research pr jects supported by this Division, the results: of which will be most im
the determination of sound permissible doses of a number of r
rtant in
ioactive
isotopes.
Health physics plans for Reactor Testing Station (RTS). Members
of the Biophysics staff visited the RTS and conferred with the Manager of
the Idaho Operations Office and members of his staff. Because of the unusual situatiqn existing at the site, where the various units will be
opereted by four or more different contractors, the present 9; fans call for
@ central AEC
group to conduct most of the radiation protecti
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n (health