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Participants in CIMMYT's 2010 Wheat Improvement and Pathology Training Program, guided by Julio Huerta (center), CIMMYT wheat pathologist, examine and take notes on the symptoms present in a set of leaf rust differentials. These are wheat lines with known responses to different leaf rust races, or pathotypes. Pathotypes vary in their virulence to different resistance genes, and so infection types and levels in different lines vary depending on the genes they contain. By codifying the responses of the differentials scientists can determine the pathotype of an unknown isolate of the pathogen.
The training course ran for three months, from 15 February to 14 May 2010, with sixteen participants from eight countries (India, Paraguay, Brazil, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Afghanistan). They program was balanced between theoretical and practical learning, including wheat breeding, pathology and quality, molecular techniques, applied statistics, and participation in hands-on fieldwork such as selections, crossing, and disease screening.
Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
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MODESTO, Calif. (AP) – A man suspected in the homicides of five people — including his mother and baby daughter — had also been linked to the death last year of a toddler, police said.
Martin "Marty" Martinez, 30, was arrested Sunday in the deaths of the five, whose bodies were found a day earlier.
Modesto Police Chief Galen Carroll said at a news conference Monday that a pathologist concluded last week that 2-year-old Christopher Ripley died of "blunt force trauma" to the head on Oct. 2, 2014, two days after he was taken to a hospital.
Carroll said Martinez had been under investigation since the boy's death and that authorities were preparing to formally charge him with homicide when the five bodies were found Saturday afternoon in the Modesto home he used to share with Dr. Amanda Crews.
Crews, 38, was Ripley's mother and one of the five homicide victims. Martinez's mother, his daughter with Crews and two other girls were also found dead. Martinez is a suspect in the five homicides, Carroll said.
Carroll said police obtained a warrant for Martinez's arrest for the toddler's death Saturday night, after the five bodies were discovered.
Carroll said police didn't issue a warrant earlier because they were awaiting the pathologist's written report.
"The Modesto Police did not drop the ball," Carroll said. He said the investigation of Ripley's death took nine months because the department had to hire an outside pathologist who specializes in neurology to help with the case.
"Homicides do take a great deal of time to investigate," Carroll said. Carroll said a "limited" number of law enforcement officials knew of the pathologist's verbal report delivered to police on Thursday that Ripley was a homicide victim. Carroll said he believes Martinez didn't know of the pathologist's report.
The arrest warrant issued for Martinez in the toddler's death shows the pathologist found the "method of death was consistent with Christopher's head hitting the tile floor as a result of abuse," the Modesto Bee reported.
Carroll said Stanislaus County Child Protective Services had ordered Martinez to stay away from Crews' surviving children.
"We do not believe that played a factor in this incident," Carroll said of possible motives for the five homicides. Their bodies were found at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday after police received a call asking for a "security check" of the home.
The daycare Christopher attended reported he suffered three suspicious injuries around the time the boy began potty training. Crews denied Martinez caused the injuries but acknowledged that he was present during two of them, according to the arrest warrant.
Carroll declined to divulge the cause of the five deaths. He said investigators haven't yet determined a motive.
Crews was a doctor and worked for the Stanislaus County Health Service Agency, according to the California Medical Board. The agency didn't return several phone calls.
Modesto Police spokeswoman Heather Graves said counselors and chaplains are available for the officers who first entered the home and made the grisly discovery. A group of law enforcement officials could be seen huddled together and praying in front of the house shortly after the discovery of the bodies.
The house is in an upscale subdivision lined with four- and five-bedroom homes that were built less than 10 years ago.
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Ravi Singh (far left), CIMMYT Distinguished Scientist, breeder, and expert in wheat genetics and pathology, discusses CIMMYT's wheat breeding efforts with leading Australian grain farmers during a visit to the center's Toluca experiment station. CIMMYT hosted the group at Toluca and El Batán between 19 and 22 August 2011, as part of a tour of farms, private and public research institutes and grain processing facilities in Singapore, UK, France, Canada, USA, and Mexico, which was supported by Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC).
The farmers were particularly interested in the developments concerning wheat stem rust race Ug99, which has reached South Africa, and risks spreading from there to western Australia, if previous disease trends occur. Stripe rust resistance, increased yield potential, and tolerance to drought and heat were also discussed; GRDC invests in this research in view of CIMMYT’s past and current contributions to higher and more stable wheat yields in Australia.
Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/index.php/2011/08/key-australian-farmers-....
Eva J. Pell (born March 11, 1948) is a biologist, plant pathologist, and science administrator. Pell's research focused on the physiological and biochemical impacts of air pollutants on vegetation. As a science administrator at Pennsylvania State University and the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Pell initiated several pan-institutional science institutes.
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Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" because his work helped to discredit humourism, bringing more science to medicine. He is also known as the founder of social medicine and veterinary pathology, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine".
This is a piece of skin that has been excised. The two stiches in the tissue are used for orientation purposes. the short one means "up" and the long one means "lateral". This is an ad hoc standard that has emerged.
BC Ministry of Agriculture veterinary pathologist Stephen Raverty “really gets into his work!” Here he's inside the abdominal cavity of a fin whale, the second largest mammal in the world, examining how the animal died. He screens for health concerns that may not only impact other members of the animal’s population, but may also be transmitted to other living creatures, including humans.
This week's winner in our photo competition for CIMMYT staff and friends is George Mahuku, CIMMYT maize pathologist. Taken in Colombia, this simple, clear image shows maize infected with the fungus Aspergillus flavus. Several species of Aspergillus can affect maize, causing Aspergillus ear rot and producing toxins known as aflatoxins that are harmful to birds and mammals, including humans, contaminating the maize grain.
For more information on on Aspergillus ear rot, see CIMMYT's Wheat Doctor: maizedoctor.cimmyt.org/index.php?option=com_content&t...; rel="nofollow.
Photo credit: G. Mahuku/CIMMYT.
I'm feeling very spikey today, just like this thistle! They cancelled my appointment as my pathology results STILL aren't back, now I have to wait another week!
Westside Forest Insect and Disease Service Center staff L-R: Holly Kearns, Kristen Chadwick, and Beth Willhite with pulaskis. Fishermans Bend BLM Recreation site, near Mill City, Oregon.
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Date: May 7, 2014
Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Westside Forest Insect and Disease Service Center.
Source: Kristen Chadwick collection; Sandy, Oregon.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Closeup of the yolk sac. The chorion is outside the field of view. Pathologists will notice the similarity between this an the notorious yolk sac tumor.
Lynn Moore and Cassandra Banks check plants for disease and bug damage June 19, 2014, at Larriland Farm, Md. Cassandra is a plant pathologist who goes around to farms in Maryland to offer her assistance with keeping the plants healthy, so the family can yield a large crop for years to come.
Participants in CIMMYT's 2011 advanced-level Wheat Improvement and Pathology training program, guided by Julio Huerta (center), CIMMYT wheat pathologist, examine and take notes on seedling infection type in response to wheat leaf rust, stripe rust and stem rust. This greenhouse test helps to detect seedling resistance. If a wheat line shows a susceptible response it may either be susceptible to the disease or carry adult plant resistance (APR). APR often indicates the presence of slow rusting genes that can be combined through breeding to produce materials with durable rust resistance.
The course ran from 15 August to 15 September 2011 and was attended by 24 early- to mid-career scientists from North and East Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. Its key objective was to improve participants’ knowledge on wheat pathology and the latest wheat breeding technologies, and how these are integrated with other disciplines such as agronomy, statistics, physiology, biotechnology, GIS, and the social sciences. A major focus was to increase participants’ understanding of selection for durable and multiple disease resistance. The program was largely field-oriented, enabling participants to improve teamworking skills and gain confidence in conducting field experiments. Most of the course was conducted at CIMMYT’s El Batán and Toluca stations, but participants also attended the 8th International Symposium on Mycosphaerella and Stagonospora Diseases of Cereals, held in Mexico City during September 11-14.
Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/index.php/2011/09/advanced-training-progr....
Participants in CIMMYT's 2010 Wheat Improvement and Pathology Training Program, guided by Julio Huerta (fourth from left), CIMMYT wheat pathologist, examine and take notes on the symptoms present in a set of leaf rust differentials. These are wheat lines with known responses to different leaf rust races, or pathotypes. Pathotypes vary in their virulence to different resistance genes, and so infection types and levels in different lines vary depending on the genes they contain. By codifying the responses of the differentials scientists can determine the pathotype of an unknown isolate of the pathogen.
The training course ran for three months, from 15 February to 14 May 2010, with sixteen participants from eight countries (India, Paraguay, Brazil, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Afghanistan). They program was balanced between theoretical and practical learning, including wheat breeding, pathology and quality, molecular techniques, applied statistics, and participation in hands-on fieldwork such as selections, crossing, and disease screening.
Photo credit: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT.
Pathologist collects blood sample from a female patient at the Alhaj Johurul Islam City Maternity Centre in Mirpur.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist Sally Stetina and technician Kristi Jordan examine cotton roots with a microscope to determine the level of infection by reniform nematode on July 19, 2011. By comparing infection levels in resistant test lines to those in susceptible controls, the scientists can identify lines with the most resistance. USDA photo by Stephen Ausmus.
Universal Pictures starring Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair and Jane Elliot as undercover nuns serving with a Doctor Elvis Presley in a poor community in the inner city of Los Angeles as a speech pathologist, registered nurse and social worker song Change of Habit www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsMj-0GfF8A and the end song Let us Pray together.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_--GkDw4iY
On Tuesday, March 18, 1969, Joan Hill, a 38-year-old Houston, Texas, socialite, became violently ill for no readily apparent reason. Her husband, Dr. John Hill, at first indifferent, later drove her at a leisurely pace several miles to a hospital in which he had a financial interest, passing many other medical facilities on the way. When checked by admitting physicians, Joan's blood pressure was dangerously low, 60/40. Attempts to stabilize her failed and the next morning she died. The cause of death was uncertain. Some thought pancreatitis; others opted for hepatitis.
Joan's father, Ash Robinson, a crusty and extremely wealthy oilman, remained convinced that his daughter had been murdered. Neither was he reticent about naming the culprit: John Hill. When, just three months after Joan's death, Hill married long-time lover Ann Kurth, Robinson threw thousands of dollars into a crusade to persuade the authorities that his son-in-law was a killer. Noted pathologist Dr. Milton Helpern, hired to conduct a second autopsy, cautiously volunteered his opinion that Joan Hill might have been poisoned.
Under Robinson's relentless badgering, prosecutors scoured legal textbooks, searching for a way to indict Hill. They came up with the extremely rare charge of "murder by omission," in effect, killing someone by deliberate neglect. Assistance came in the unexpected form of Ann Kurth. Hill had ditched her after just nine months of marriage. What Kurth told the district attorney bolstered their decision to indict Hill.
Jury selection began on February 15, 1971. Because of the defendant's undeniably handsome appearance, Assistant District Attorney I.D. McMaster aimed for a predominantly male, middle-class panel, one he thought likely to frown on a wealthy philandering physician. His opponent, chief defense counsel Richard Haynes, quite naturally did his best to sit jurors that he thought would favor his client. In this first battle McMaster emerged a clear victor, securing a jury made up of eleven men and one woman. Haynes wasn't that perturbed. In a long and eventful career he'd overcome bigger obstacles, earning a statewide reputation second to none for tenacity and legal acumen. Not for nothing had he acquired the nickname "Racehorse." It promised to be a memorable contest.
CIMMYT wheat scientists Sybil Herrera-Foessel (far right) and David Bonnett (far left) talk with leading Australian grain farmers during a visit to the center's El Batán, Mexico headquarters, discussing wheat rust resistance research funded by Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). CIMMYT hosted the group at its Toluca and El Batán stations between 19 and 22 August 2011, as part of a tour of farms, private and public research institutes and grain processing facilities in Singapore, UK, France, Canada, USA, and Mexico, which was supported by GRDC. GRDC recognizes CIMMYT's past and current contributions to higher and more stable wheat yields in Australia and invests in CIMMYT research.
Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/index.php/2011/08/key-australian-farmers-....
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Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, né le 13 octobre 1821 à Schivelbein (aujourd'hui Świdwin), en Poméranie, décédé le 5 septembre 1902 à Berlin) est un médecin pathologiste et homme politique allemand, considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de l'anatomie pathologique moderne. Il effectua l'essentiel de sa carrière à l'hôpital de la Charité de Berlin, se faisant le promoteur d'une médecine strictement orientée vers les sciences naturelles. En tant qu'homme politique, il fut l'un des représentants du parti progressiste allemand.
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, born October 13, 1821 at Schivelbein (now Swidwin), Pomerania, died September 5, 1902 in Berlin) is a pathologist and German politician, considered one of the founders of the anatomy pathological modern. He made most of his career at the Charité hospital in Berlin, making the promoter medicine strictly oriented towards natural sciences. As a politician, he was a representative of the German Progressive Party.
In Nepal, throughout the year, teams of 6-8 trained speech pathologists and therapists organize speech camps in each of the five peripheral sites surrounding Kathmandu. Speech camps are provided for former cleft palate patients in order to improve their speech, which many times doesn’t developed properly due to their clefts. During these camps, each cleft palate patient and one guardian are housed for nearly a week and undergo intensive yet fun speech training involving both individual and group sessions. The parents and guardians are taught how to give daily speech exercises and therapy between the monthly sessions. Group sessions, singing, dancing, and games are all integral parts of the camp with the focus on improving both speech and self-esteem.
A Bangladeshi scientist at work in the plant pathology laboratory of the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute's Wheat Research Centre in Dinajpur.
CIMMYT works in partnership with local institutions like this across the world, with scientists working hand-in-hand to develop disease resistant wheat varieties. The expertise and genetic resources that CIMMYT provides are invaluable in the global battle against disease.
In Bangladesh the Wheat Research Centre is a key CIMMYT partner, in a collaboration that helps reach farmers with improved varieties, technologies and practices.
Photo credit: S. Mojumder/Drik/CIMMYT.
For the latest on CIMMYT in Bangladesh, see CIMMYT's blog at: blog.cimmyt.org/?tag=bangladesh.
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Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow 13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" because his work helped to discredit humourism, bringing more science to medicine. He is also known as the founder of social medicine and veterinary pathology, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine".
Born and raised in Schievelbein (Świdwin) as an only child of a working-class family, he proved to be a brilliant student. Dissuaded by his weak voice, he abandoned his initial interest in theology and turned to medicine. With the help of a special military scholarship, he earned his medical degree from Friedrich-Wilhelms Institute (Humboldt University of Berlin) under the tutelage of Johannes Peter Müller. He worked at the Charité hospital under Robert Froriep, whom he eventually succeeded as the prosector.
Although he failed to contain the 1847–1848 typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia, his report laid the foundation for public health in Germany, as well as his political and social activities. From it, he coined a well known aphorism: "Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale". He participated in the Revolution of 1848, which led to his expulsion from Charité the next year. He published a newspaper Die medicinische Reform (Medical Reform) during this period to disseminate his social and political ideas. He took the first Chair of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Würzburg in 1849. After five years, Charité invited him back to direct its newly built Institute for Pathology, and simultaneously becoming the first Chair of Pathological Anatomy and Physiology at Berlin University. The campus of Charité is now named Campus Virchow Klinikum. He cofounded the political party Deutsche Fortschrittspartei, by which he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives, and won a seat in the Reichstag. His opposition to Otto von Bismarck's financial policy resulted in an anecdotal "Sausage Duel" between the two. But he ardently supported Bismarck in his anti-Catholic campaigns, the social revolution he himself named as Kulturkampf ("culture struggle").
A prolific writer, he produced scientific writings alone exceeding 2,000 in number. Among his books, Cellular Pathology published in 1858 is regarded as the root of modern pathology. This work also popularised the third dictum in cell theory: Omnis cellula e cellula ("All cells come from cells"); although his idea originated in 1855. He founded journals such as Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin (now Virchows Archiv), and Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (Journal of Ethnology). The latter is published by German Anthropological Association and the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, the societies of which he also founded.
Virchow was the first to precisely describe and give names of diseases such as leukemia, chordoma, ochronosis, embolism, and thrombosis. He coined scientific terms, chromatin, agenesis, parenchyma, osteoid, amyloid degeneration, and spina bifida. His description of the transmission cycle of a roundworm Trichinella spiralis established the importance of meat inspection, which was started in Berlin. He developed the first systematic method of autopsy involving surgery of all body parts and microscopic examination. A number of medical terms are named after him, including Virchow's node, Virchow–Robin spaces, Virchow–Seckel syndrome, and Virchow's triad. He was the first to use hair analysis in criminal investigation, and recognised its limitations. His laborious analyses of the hair, skin, and eye colour of school children made him criticise the Aryan race concept as a myth.
He was an ardent anti-evolutionist. He referred to Charles Darwin as an "ignoramus" and his own student Ernst Haeckel, the leading advocate of Darwinism in Germany, as a "fool". He discredited the original specimen of Neanderthal man as nothing but that of a deformed human, and not an ancestral species. He was an agnostic.
In 1861, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1892, he was awarded the Copley Medal of the British Royal Society. He was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1873; he declined an offer of ennoblement.
On Tuesday, March 18, 1969, Joan Hill, a 38-year-old Houston, Texas, socialite, became violently ill for no readily apparent reason. Her husband, Dr. John Hill, at first indifferent, later drove her at a leisurely pace several miles to a hospital in which he had a financial interest, passing many other medical facilities on the way. When checked by admitting physicians, Joan's blood pressure was dangerously low, 60/40. Attempts to stabilize her failed and the next morning she died. The cause of death was uncertain. Some thought pancreatitis; others opted for hepatitis.
Joan's father, Ash Robinson, a crusty and extremely wealthy oilman, remained convinced that his daughter had been murdered. Neither was he reticent about naming the culprit: John Hill. When, just three months after Joan's death, Hill married long-time lover Ann Kurth, Robinson threw thousands of dollars into a crusade to persuade the authorities that his son-in-law was a killer. Noted pathologist Dr. Milton Helpern, hired to conduct a second autopsy, cautiously volunteered his opinion that Joan Hill might have been poisoned.
Under Robinson's relentless badgering, prosecutors scoured legal textbooks, searching for a way to indict Hill. They came up with the extremely rare charge of "murder by omission," in effect, killing someone by deliberate neglect. Assistance came in the unexpected form of Ann Kurth. Hill had ditched her after just nine months of marriage. What Kurth told the district attorney bolstered their decision to indict Hill.
Jury selection began on February 15, 1971. Because of the defendant's undeniably handsome appearance, Assistant District Attorney I.D. McMaster aimed for a predominantly male, middle-class panel, one he thought likely to frown on a wealthy philandering physician. His opponent, chief defense counsel Richard Haynes, quite naturally did his best to sit jurors that he thought would favor his client. In this first battle McMaster emerged a clear victor, securing a jury made up of eleven men and one woman. Haynes wasn't that perturbed. In a long and eventful career he'd overcome bigger obstacles, earning a statewide reputation second to none for tenacity and legal acumen. Not for nothing had he acquired the nickname "Racehorse." It promised to be a memorable contest.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Research Service (ARS) plant pathologists Rick Jones and Leslie Wanner screen both traditional and genetically enhanced potatoes for disease resistance on July 26, 2012. The potatoes on the left are uninfected (clean and round), whereas the ones on the right are infected (dark and misshapen). USDA photo by Stephen Ausmus.
On Tuesday, March 18, 1969, Joan Hill, a 38-year-old Houston, Texas, socialite, became violently ill for no readily apparent reason. Her husband, Dr. John Hill, at first indifferent, later drove her at a leisurely pace several miles to a hospital in which he had a financial interest, passing many other medical facilities on the way. When checked by admitting physicians, Joan's blood pressure was dangerously low, 60/40. Attempts to stabilize her failed and the next morning she died. The cause of death was uncertain. Some thought pancreatitis; others opted for hepatitis.
Joan's father, Ash Robinson, a crusty and extremely wealthy oilman, remained convinced that his daughter had been murdered. Neither was he reticent about naming the culprit: John Hill. When, just three months after Joan's death, Hill married long-time lover Ann Kurth, Robinson threw thousands of dollars into a crusade to persuade the authorities that his son-in-law was a killer. Noted pathologist Dr. Milton Helpern, hired to conduct a second autopsy, cautiously volunteered his opinion that Joan Hill might have been poisoned.
Under Robinson's relentless badgering, prosecutors scoured legal textbooks, searching for a way to indict Hill. They came up with the extremely rare charge of "murder by omission," in effect, killing someone by deliberate neglect. Assistance came in the unexpected form of Ann Kurth. Hill had ditched her after just nine months of marriage. What Kurth told the district attorney bolstered their decision to indict Hill.
Jury selection began on February 15, 1971. Because of the defendant's undeniably handsome appearance, Assistant District Attorney I.D. McMaster aimed for a predominantly male, middle-class panel, one he thought likely to frown on a wealthy philandering physician. His opponent, chief defense counsel Richard Haynes, quite naturally did his best to sit jurors that he thought would favor his client. In this first battle McMaster emerged a clear victor, securing a jury made up of eleven men and one woman. Haynes wasn't that perturbed. In a long and eventful career he'd overcome bigger obstacles, earning a statewide reputation second to none for tenacity and legal acumen. Not for nothing had he acquired the nickname "Racehorse." It promised to be a memorable contest.
CIMMYT wheat pathologists Julio Huerta, Ravi Singh, and Sybil Herrera-Foessel (left to right), scoring wheat for resistance to rust in the field at CIMMYT's headquarters at El Batán, Mexico.
Photo credit: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT.
On Tuesday, March 18, 1969, Joan Hill, a 38-year-old Houston, Texas, socialite, became violently ill for no readily apparent reason. Her husband, Dr. John Hill, at first indifferent, later drove her at a leisurely pace several miles to a hospital in which he had a financial interest, passing many other medical facilities on the way. When checked by admitting physicians, Joan's blood pressure was dangerously low, 60/40. Attempts to stabilize her failed and the next morning she died. The cause of death was uncertain. Some thought pancreatitis; others opted for hepatitis.
Joan's father, Ash Robinson, a crusty and extremely wealthy oilman, remained convinced that his daughter had been murdered. Neither was he reticent about naming the culprit: John Hill. When, just three months after Joan's death, Hill married long-time lover Ann Kurth, Robinson threw thousands of dollars into a crusade to persuade the authorities that his son-in-law was a killer. Noted pathologist Dr. Milton Helpern, hired to conduct a second autopsy, cautiously volunteered his opinion that Joan Hill might have been poisoned.
Under Robinson's relentless badgering, prosecutors scoured legal textbooks, searching for a way to indict Hill. They came up with the extremely rare charge of "murder by omission," in effect, killing someone by deliberate neglect. Assistance came in the unexpected form of Ann Kurth. Hill had ditched her after just nine months of marriage. What Kurth told the district attorney bolstered their decision to indict Hill.
Jury selection began on February 15, 1971. Because of the defendant's undeniably handsome appearance, Assistant District Attorney I.D. McMaster aimed for a predominantly male, middle-class panel, one he thought likely to frown on a wealthy philandering physician. His opponent, chief defense counsel Richard Haynes, quite naturally did his best to sit jurors that he thought would favor his client. In this first battle McMaster emerged a clear victor, securing a jury made up of eleven men and one woman. Haynes wasn't that perturbed. In a long and eventful career he'd overcome bigger obstacles, earning a statewide reputation second to none for tenacity and legal acumen. Not for nothing had he acquired the nickname "Racehorse." It promised to be a memorable contest.
In the center of the picture are abnormal cells. I have marked them with this semi-circle blue mark for review by a Pathologist. After locating and marking abnormal cells, I make a diagnosis on them and then the Pathologist will make the final diagnosis. This is a low power view of a Pap Smear (100x magnification)
Sybil Herrera-Foessel (far right), CIMMYT wheat geneticist and pathologist, talks with leading Australian grain farmers during a visit to the center's El Batán, Mexico headquarters, discussing wheat rust resistance research funded by Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). CIMMYT hosted the group at its Toluca and El Batán stations between 19 and 22 August 2011, as part of a tour of farms, private and public research institutes and grain processing facilities in Singapore, UK, France, Canada, USA, and Mexico, which was supported by GRDC. GRDC recognizes CIMMYT's past and current contributions to higher and more stable wheat yields in Australia and invests in CIMMYT research.
Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/index.php/2011/08/key-australian-farmers-....