RT Journal
T1 ORganization section
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD August 13
VO 140
IS 15
SP 1221
OP 1221
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900500029013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900500029013
AB Washington Letter 
    (From a Special Correspondent)Aug. 1, 1949.Radioisotope Research Encouraging, Dr. Warren Reports 
    In the three years that the Atomic Energy Commission has been distributing radioisotopes for medical research, the amount of new knowledge that has been gathered is "amazing," according to Dr. Shields Warren. His observation was made, in his capacity as director of AEC's division of biology and medicine, in the course of a press conference on August 4 on medicalbiologic aspects of the Commission's sixth semiannual report submitted to Congress a few days previously.For particular mention, among projects now being undertaken with AEC financial support, he singled out blood investigations at the University of Michigan and studies of changes in hepatic function in irradiated animals at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, as well as long range research which has been proceeding in Japan for the last two years under the auspices of the