The George Fahr Lecture

George Armstrong Lecture 2000.

I am honored to accept the Ambulatory Pediatric Association’s (APA’s) George Armstrong Lecture Award 2000 on behalf of Greenpeace. We greatly appreciate your recognition of Greenpeace’s global efforts to protect the earth and its children. Because of my campaign’s work on toxic pollution, and the effects of chemicals on the health of children everywhere, Greenpeace asked me to accept this award...

George Lyman Duff Memorial Lecture. Atherogenesis in diabetes.

A bout 45 years ago George Lyman Duff, together / \ with Gardner McMillan, presented a paper J. \ . called "The Effect of Alloxan Diabetes on Experimental Cholesterol Atherosclerosis in the Rabbit" at the Second Annual Meeting of the American Society for the Study of Arteriosclerosis, and two papers describing that work were subsequently published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine in 1949...

George E. Brown memorial lecture. Local modulation of adrenergic neurotransmission.

The cardiovascular reflexes, by regulating the traffic in the sympathetic nerves, govern the amount of norepinephrine released from the nerve endings. However, the final adjustments in the amount of neurotransmitter available to activate the beta 1 receptors in the heart and the alpha receptors in the blood vessels take place at the sympathetic neuroeffector junction. Thus, a decrease in pH, hy...

George Lyman Duff Memorial Lecture. Atherosclerosis complicating chronic hypertension.

The George E. Brown Memorial Lecture; current status of the problem of thrombosis.

The pathogenesis of intravascular thrombosis involves 1 or a combination of 3 factors: an endothelial lesion, a disturbance of blood flow, and hypercoagulability of the blood. The fate of fresh thrombi is probably dependent on the fibrinolytic activity of the plasma. While some tests for coagulation factors have given some positive results among patients with various types of thrombosis, no tes...