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Public Health Service Study on Reye’s Syndrome and Medications — Report of the Pilot Phase

List of authors.
  • Eugene S. Hurwitz, M.D.,
  • Michael J. Barrett, M.D.,
  • Dennis Bregman, M.S.,
  • Walter J. Gunn, Ph.D.,
  • Lawrence B. Schonberger, M.D.,
  • William R. Fairweather, Ph.D.,
  • Joseph S. Drage, M.D.,
  • John R. LaMontagne, Ph.D.,
  • Richard A. Kaslow, M.D., M.P.H.,
  • D. Bruce Burlington, M.D.,
  • Gerald V. Quinnan, M.D.,
  • Robert A. Parker, D.Sc.,
  • Kem Phillips,
  • Paul Pinsky, M.P.H.,
  • Delbert Dayton, M.D.,
  • and Walter R. Dowdle, Ph.D.

Funding and Disclosures

We are indebted to Reye Syndrome Task Force Members Lowell T. Harmison, Ph.D., Joel N. Kuritsky, M.D., Ann Rose, Ph.D., and former member Stanley Edlavitch, Ph.D., for their contributions to this study; to Voughn Trader for assistance; to Martha Berlin, Project Manager, for assistance; to Mort Robins, Project Director, and to other study personnel of Westat, Inc., as well as study participants from the Ohio, Oklahoma, and Minnesota State Health Departments and from Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children, St. Louis, Children's Hospital, Birmingham, Ala., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Denver Children's Hospital, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Ind., Lubbock General Hospital, Medical College of Virginia, Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, St. Louis Children's Hospital, and University Hospital of Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, N.Y.

Author Affiliations

From the Public Health Service Reye Syndrome Task Force, consisting of members from the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Address reprint requests to Dr. Hurwitz, at the Centers for Disease Control, 1600 Clifton Road, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30333.

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