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Show TB Assn. Lists Research Grants Research grants totaling $2,700 have been made to Utah researchers re-searchers studying pulmonary disease, it was announced this week by John H. Zenger, president presi-dent of the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Association. The grants are from the Utah Research Fund for Pulmonary Diseases which was established by the TB Association last year. Local Christmas Seal contributions contribu-tions make the research program possible, said Mr. Zenger. A grant of $1,000 was made to Dr. H. William Harris of the Veterans Administration Hospital Hospi-tal in Salt Lake City. It will continue previous support of his studies in the hereditary variation varia-tion in the usefulness of isoniazid a frequently used drug to treat tuberculosis. Another $1,000 grant goes to Dr. J. D. Mortensen, researcher at the Latter-day Saints Hospital Hospi-tal in Salt Lake City. Dr. Mortensen Mor-tensen will develop and test a ' device to warm and humidify oxygen that is delivered by a tube to the lungs of patients. The third grant was given to Dr. Charles M. Parrish and Dr. Jerome E'. Cohn for work that will be done at Holy Cross Hospital Hos-pital in Salt Lake City. Seven hundred dollars of Christmas Seal funds will inaugurate more studies measuring collateral pulmonary pul-monary circulation. |