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March of Dimes
Continues Study
Of Birth Defects
For most of the country, 1965 was a year of bitter harvest: the thousands of defective “rubella (German measles) babies” born to women infected during their pregnancies the year before. New, unexpected and disturb ing findings about the behavior of the rubella virus and its capacity to kill or damage babies in the womb overshadowed other significant de velopments in biology and medicine related to birth defects.
The year produced new evidence of the magnitude of birth defects as a cause of death and impairment in the United States. In clinical medicine, the expanding network of March of Dimes Birth Defects Centers across the country was having enormous impact, not just in providing specialized birth defects treatment that wasn’t available before, but in changing patterns of pediatric prao tice as a whole. In science, there was exci» ing progress in biochemical genetics and in manipulation of the basic code-of-life chemi cals...there were noteworthy discoveries concerning abnoF mal chromosomes...advances in understanding inborn errors in body chemistry... and
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