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Doctors in Wichita Seek Fast Diagnosis
WICHITA - (UPI) Medical researchers are seeking methods of applying high-speed newspaper printing techniques to the early discovery and prevention of disease.
By Donn F. Downing
Dr. Leo Cawley, clinical pathologist and director of the Wesley Medical Research Foundation of Wichita, had been trying to develop automated laboratory equipment that can make a "fingerprint" of a person's health.
Cawley has visited local newspaper and printing plants for ideas that would help him apply pathological samples of rolls of paper-forming a moving belt of specimens to be fed into the laboratory's testing equipment.
BUT THE SLOWNESS of the tests has opened the need for faster methods of feeding pathological samples into laboratory equipment. Dr. Cawley sees the speed with which ink can be applied to newsprint as a possible breakthrough.
Behind the research are the concepts of genetic pathology and molecular biology.
Simply stated, each person is an individual, duplicated by no other person, right down to the molecules in his body.
WHEN CHEMICALS are applied to these biological individualities in pathological samples, an individual reaction results. When the reaction is monitored by complicated equipment and penned in thin lines on moving graph paper, it produces a pattern.
Over a period of years, a person would build up a file of tests indicating his normal health pattern or "fingerprint." Any variation in a test_from that person's normal pattern would indicate the onset of a disease.
"There may be a change in that pattern which would indicate a disease's onset." Dr. Cawley said. "Most discases give chemical signs."
HE SAID THAT the chemical
signs of a disease may appear from six months to a year in advance of the stages that can be recognized and diagnosed by the physician. The tests could uncover cancer, heart diseases and certain degenerative diseases far in advance of their actual physical manifestations, he said.
But not until the actual laboratory process can be fully automated and speeded up, will the testing of large numbers of patients be practicable.
"Man is getting to a point in preventive medicine where he has never been before." Dr. Cawley said.
"We've reached a bottleneck in our research," Dr. Cawley said. "The present method of study takes too much time. If every human in the nation had these tests in a year it would take 50,000 technicians working day and night."
WORKING ON the protein or blood serum, Dr. Cawley has reduced the process from 18 hours to 30 minutes. The serum protein is placed on a slide which is fed into the laboratory testing equipment.
He thinks methods of putting ink on paper moving at high speeds without it smearing or running might speed the process up.
"The chemical reaction could be created right on the moving belt," he said, instead of on glass slides.
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Sons Give Moms Away at Wedding
STAR CITY, Ark.—There was no rush to go on honeymoons yesterday after seven couples were married at the First Baptist Church.
The reason was the brides and bridegrooms were married—and to each other—years ago. They were married again yesterday to satisfy a social security administration ruling.
So the seven couples were married over again with 20 of their 21 children present. The Rev. Roy Moore, father of two of the brides, performed the ceremony. The seven brides were given away by their sons.
"It was so beautiful," one bride said. "Much nicer than the first time."
The ruling made invalid, because of a 1941 Arkansas law, marriages between brides under 16 and bridegrooms under 18. Social Security refused to pay benefits to wives or widows whose marriages violated the law.
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Dorms Plan Joint Picnic
Carruthr-O'Leary and Corbin Hall, men's and women's summer session dormitories, have scheduled a joint picnic Wednesday at Potter Lake.
Art Johnson, social chairman from Carruth O'Leary, said approximately 130 students are expected to attend the picnic at 5:30 p.m.
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