No. 1 killer of U.S. children is rheumatic fever. It is not only one of the biggest mysteries in medical science; it is one of the most neglected. Last week one of the most thorough campaigns yet mapped against the disease got under way at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. Directing the work were two well-matched experts: Dr. Francis Schwentker, 42, new head of the Hopkins pediatric staff who has just finished eight years of research on strep infections, and Dr. Helen Taussig, 48, head of the Hopkins Children's Heart Clinic and a famed...
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