C Early-treated patients (i) without complications.............................. 10 13.4 days 100.4 1 7/12
(ii) with complications*................................ 18 15.7" 87.2 t 2 5/12 (iii) delayed treatment (6th …

THE purpose of this report is to call attention to human hair as a potential source of injury to
young children. The 3 cases described concern children with constriction of an appendage …

THE Diagnostic Laboratories of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the
Division of Maternal and Child Health were happy to join in the general phenylketonuria …

A RELIABLE PAPER-STRIP METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF PHENYLKETONURIA U
NTIL 3 years ago, prompt recogni- tion of phenylketonuria w Page 1 A RELIABLE PAPER-STRIP …

To the Editor:—Recently there has been some unsolicited publicity in the lay literature about
a project which the College of Medical Evangelists is undertaking. The project is concerned …

DISCUSSION Recent correspondence from Gibbs3 indicates that this entity has previously
been recognized by members of the staff of a New York hospital, and they mention that …

WE BECAME INTERESTED in the de-tection ofphenylketonuria because such a large
number of mentally deficient children were being seen each year in our pediatric clinic. In …

Methods From-i 59 inembeirs of niine families on1 the P1KV register, lheparinlized blood
samples (375 microliters) were collected in their homesby fiing, er pulLnctLure after the …

Phenylketonuria was, until recently, regarded as a very rare disease with an estimated
incidence of between 1 in 18,000 and 1 in 40,000 (Centerwall, Berry, and Woolf, 1963). The …

The purpose of screening infants for the presence of phenylketonuria is to permit early
treatment and thus reduce the risk of mental retardation associated with this disease. It has …