NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

POSTGRADUATE COURSES IN PEDIATRICS have been arranged under the sponsorship of the American Academy of Pediatrics through its Committee on Medical Education. The courses are as follows: newborn and premature, September 23 to 26, 1970, at the Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Canada, with Dr. Mary Avery; respiratory failure in pediatrics, November 4 to 6, 1970, at the Philadelphia Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Dr. Leonard Bachman and Dr. Sylvan Stool; pediatric cardiology, December 9 to 12, 1970, at St. Petersburg, Florida, University of Florida College of Medicine, with Dr. Gerald Schiebler; pediatric endocrinology, January 20 to 22, 1971, at the University of California, Irvine, California, with Dr. H. David Mosier, Jr.; recent advances in the immunoprophylaxis and chemotherapy of infectious diseseas, February 5 to 7, 1971, in cooperation with the American College of Physicians, at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, with Dr. Vincent Fulginiti; infectious diseases, May 12 to 14, 1971, at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City, with Dr. Harris D. Riley, Jr.; and clinical pharmacology and pharmacogenetics, June 1971, at the State University of New York, Buffalo, with Dr. Jean Cortner and Dr. Sumner Yaffe.