Pathology

THURSDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- In epidemiological studies of women with breast cancer, pathology reports offer an acceptable alternative to repeated central laboratory testing for determining the estrogen-receptor status of participants, new research suggests. The use of pathology reports is common practice in such studies, but it wasn't known whether they were accurate, according to the report in a recent issue of theJournal of the National Cancer Institute. Misclassification of estrogen-receptor status could seriously...

Leo R. Goldbaum, 99, an eminent toxicologist who worked at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington from 1952 to 1979, died of pneumonia Dec. 29 at Fox Chase Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Silver Spring. His son, Thomas Goldbaum, confirmed the death. Dr. Goldbaum was a founding member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 1948 and spent his early career as a toxicologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York and what is now Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Eugene Abram Foster, 81, who conducted a prominent DNA study that linked descendants of Thomas Jefferson to his Monticello slave Sally Hemings, died of complications of renal failure and pneumonia July 21 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. Dr. Foster, a retired pathologist, was a primary researcher in the study, which combined historical accounts with scientific evidence from male relatives of Jefferson and Hemings. The results, published in the scientific journal Nature in November 1998, added more...

Christine Cross Pearcy, 93, who retired from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1981 as a statistician, died Sept. 23 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. She had respiratory failure and atherosclerotic heart disease, said her son Michael K. Pearcy. Mrs. Pearcy worked for the federal government for 26 years, including about 18 years at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Earlier in her career, she worked for the Army in the Washington area and in New Jersey.

PORNOGRAFIA By Witold Gombrowicz Translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt Grove. 225 pp. $23 Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) is part of a celebrated generation of mid-20th-century Polish writers, one that includes the doomed magic-realist short story writer Bruno Schulz, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, author of the great and sexily titled novel "Insatiability. " All these writers knew, admired and supported one another.

President, Colorado State University   Dr. Anthony A. Frank is the 14th president of Colorado State University, one of the nation's leading public research universities with more than 25,000 students and more than $330 million in annual research activity.Tony Frank is a strong believer in public higher education and the land-grant mission to create access and opportunity for all citizens. He has held leadership roles at Colorado State University for more than 17 years, including four years as Provost and Senior Vice President, prior to...

See the exhibit "Triumph at Carville: A Tale of Leprosy in America," based on the PBS television documentary of the same name by Sally Squires and John Wilhelm , at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, 6900 Georgia Ave . NW, through Sept. 30. Attend a free lecture on Hansen's disease by Wayne M. Myers of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at noon June 19 in the museum 's Russell Auditorium .

Barbara Zeligs, 70, who performed immunology research at Georgetown University Hospital for 33 years, died May 9 at her home in Bethesda. She had scleroderma, a connective-tissue disease. At Georgetown, Ms. Zeligs worked primarily as a staff research associate in an immunology laboratory, where she studied vaccines, neonatal immune system development and tests for the detection of tuberculosis. She retired in 2007. She published more than 40 studies on vaccines and immunology in textbooks and medical journals.

William G. Banfield II, 91, a physician and research scientist at the National Institutes of Health who specialized in research on viruses, died Jan. 13 at his home in Rockville. He died of leukemia, said his daughter, Sarah Banfield. William Gethin Banfield II was a native of Charlotte and a 1941 graduate of the University of Rhode Island. He attended Yale University medical school until 1943, when he joined the Army Medical Corps in World War II. After the war, he finished his medical training at Yale and did a medical...

Christine Cross Pearcy, 93, who retired from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1981 as a statistician, died Sept. 23 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. She had respiratory failure and atherosclerotic heart disease, said her son Michael K. Pearcy. Mrs. Pearcy worked for the federal government for 26 years, including about 18 years at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Earlier in her career, she worked for the Army in the Washington area and in New Jersey.

President, Colorado State University   Dr. Anthony A. Frank is the 14th president of Colorado State University, one of the nation's leading public research universities with more than 25,000 students and more than $330 million in annual research activity.Tony Frank is a strong believer in public higher education and the land-grant mission to create access and opportunity for all citizens. He has held leadership roles at Colorado State University for more than 17 years, including four years as Provost and Senior Vice President, prior to his appointment...

William G. Banfield II, 91, a physician and research scientist at the National Institutes of Health who specialized in research on viruses, died Jan. 13 at his home in Rockville. He died of leukemia, said his daughter, Sarah Banfield. William Gethin Banfield II was a native of Charlotte and a 1941 graduate of the University of Rhode Island. He attended Yale University medical school until 1943, when he joined the Army Medical Corps in World War II. After the war, he finished his medical training at Yale and did a medical...

Reviewing the film "The Help" [ "Using stereotypes to explain racism," Weekend, Aug. 12], Ann Hornaday wrote that racism should be "understood less as a matter of black grievance than of unexamined white privilege and pathology. " I wish that at this juncture Hornaday would have mentioned another tale about black "help," also set in Mississippi, one that, in a brilliant, just-published memoir, did examine these issues: "The Last Resort, Taking the Mississippi Cure," by Norma Watkins.

Barbara Zeligs, 70, who performed immunology research at Georgetown University Hospital for 33 years, died May 9 at her home in Bethesda. She had scleroderma, a connective-tissue disease. At Georgetown, Ms. Zeligs worked primarily as a staff research associate in an immunology laboratory, where she studied vaccines, neonatal immune system development and tests for the detection of tuberculosis. She retired in 2007. She published more than 40 studies on vaccines and immunology in textbooks and medical journals.

PORNOGRAFIA By Witold Gombrowicz Translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt Grove. 225 pp. $23 Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) is part of a celebrated generation of mid-20th-century Polish writers, one that includes the doomed magic-realist short story writer Bruno Schulz, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, author of the great and sexily titled novel "Insatiability. " All these writers knew, admired and supported one another.

For nearly 150 years, from its origins during the Civil War, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington has helped diagnose illnesses and solve medical mysteries. The institute's unsurpassed repository of 95 million tissue samples helped researchers reconstruct the virus behind the notorious 1918-19 Spanish flu three years ago, providing clues on how to battle new pandemics such as the H1N1 virus. Earlier this month, the institute's DNA lab in Rockville identified the remains of Navy Capt.

Reviewing the film "The Help" [ "Using stereotypes to explain racism," Weekend, Aug. 12], Ann Hornaday wrote that racism should be "understood less as a matter of black grievance than of unexamined white privilege and pathology. " I wish that at this juncture Hornaday would have mentioned another tale about black "help," also set in Mississippi, one that, in a brilliant, just-published memoir, did examine these issues: "The Last Resort, Taking the Mississippi Cure," by Norma Watkins.

Position : Vice president, U.S. federal government, Microsoft. Career Highlights : Worldwide vice president of marketing and business development for Keyfile; vice president of Polaris Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of NovaCare. Age : 46 Education : BS and MS, speech and language pathology, Western Kentucky University. Personal : Lives in Silver Spring with husband, Chris, son Elliot and golden retriever Dixie. Their eldest son, Tyler, is a freshman at West Point.

MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Differences in the brains of elderly people may help explain why some develop dementia while others are among the "super aged" -- people who maintain sharp mental focus and ability well into old age. In a preliminary study, researchers have found that the brains of these still-sharp folks over 80 have none, or very little, of the protein "tangles" that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. "Both plaques and tangles are what we consider the pathology of Alzheimer's but [only]

Position : Vice president, U.S. federal government, Microsoft. Career Highlights : Worldwide vice president of marketing and business development for Keyfile; vice president of Polaris Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of NovaCare. Age : 46 Education : BS and MS, speech and language pathology, Western Kentucky University. Personal : Lives in Silver Spring with husband, Chris, son Elliot and golden retriever Dixie. Their eldest son, Tyler, is a freshman at West Point.