RT Journal T1 MEdical news JF Journal of the American Medical Association JO Journal of the American Medical Association YR 1949 FD August 13 VO 140 IS 15 SP 1224 OP 1226 DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900500032015 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900500032015 AB ARKANSAS  Dr. Wells Heads Department.—  Dr. Benjamin B. Wells, director of cancer research at the M. D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, Houston, Texas, assumed his duties July 1 as head of the department of internal medicine at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock. Dr. Wells, a graduate of Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, 1935, served on the faculty of the University of Arkansas from 1946 to 1948 as professor of medicine and also as dean the last year.CALIFORNIA  St. John's Hospital Fall Clinic.—  St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, will present its first Annual Fall Clinic September 12-14. The program includes symposiums on hyperthyroidism, the genitourinary system and jaundice; seminars in obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and hematology; a clinical pathologic conference, and peripheral-vascular clinic. Out of state guest speakers include Drs. Percy J. Carroll, Harry H. McCarthy and Louis D. McGuire, Omaha, Neb.; Malcolm B.