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By Alfred L. Scheuer, Ed.D., M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director,
March of Dimes Meningomyelocele Clinic,
New York Hospital
The medical world is beginning to see a new group of teen-agers who have special physical and emotional problems. I am not talking about rebellious youth on strife-torn campuses nor school-age drug users. \ I m talking about the youngsters who would not have survived early childhood as recently as 20 years ago. Now, thanks to improved diagnosis and treatment, children with a birth defect called meningomyelocele have been given a lease on life that runs years beyond the previously allotted span.
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