Medical Feat By Rotorua Team
(New Zealand Press Association) ROTORUA, July 19. A method of determining the uric acid level in humans, perfected by a team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Rotorua, has been accepted by world experts on rheumatic diseases. A high uric acid level in the blood can lead to gout.
was with other South Pacific; ' races. The gathering decided to carry out research on races' not already under investiga-i tion, especially in the Pacific! area.
The method was perfected! by Dr. I. C. Isdale and Miss' ■M. Buchanan, a laboratory technologist. Just back from a New York international symposium on rheumatic disorders, the Medical Superintendent of the hospital (Dr. B. S. Rose) said today that the symposium had found the Rotorua method an acceptable one for determining the uric acid level. He said the method had been perfected by Dr. Isdale (and Miss Buchanan from a 'method first started at the; (hospital about 12 years ago ' by Dr. R. Beale, a biochemist,; who was now working in Australia. ; Dr. Rose said there was (interest at the symposium in I the findings by New Zealand' {researchers that gout was in-; ■creasing among Maoris, as it
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 3
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