Richard Smithells
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Richard Smithells's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry University of Manchester
- PhD Chemistry University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Worthington Smithells was a British paediatrician and Emeritus professor of paediatrics at the University of Leeds. Smithells was most notable for research into neural tube defects, congenital abnormality registers, genetic counselling, and rubella in pregnancy and for later suggesting direct examination of the foetus by photography using ultrasonography.
Richard Smithells's Published Works
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Published Works
- Vitamin dificiencies and neural tube defects. (1976) (506)
- Apparent prevention of neural tube defects by periconceptional vitamin supplementation. (1981) (404)
- POSSIBLE PREVENTION OF NEURAL-TUBE DEFECTS BY PERICONCEPTIONAL VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION (1980) (331)
- Vitamin deficiencies and neural tube defects. (1976) (242)
- Recognition of thalidomide defects. (1992) (230)
- International retrospective cohort study of neural tube defects in relation to folic acid recommendations: are the recommendations working? (2005) (142)
- International retrospective cohort study of neural tube defects in relation to folic acid recommendations: are the recommendations working? (2005) (136)
- PREVENTION OF NEURAL TUBE DEFECT RECURRENCES IN YORKSHIRE: FINAL REPORT (1989) (132)
- Defects and Disabilities of Thalidomide Children (1973) (103)
- From grain size to tectonics (2010) (93)
- Congenital heart disease in Liverpool: 1960--69. (1975) (91)
- VITAMIN B12 AND ANENCEPHALY (1980) (79)
- Maternal nutrition in early pregnancy (1977) (77)
- Teratogenicity testing in humans: a method demonstrating safety of bendectin. (1978) (69)
- The effect of periconceptional supplementation on blood vitamin concentrations in women at recurrence risk for neural tube defect (1983) (58)
- In vivo characterization of the absorption and biotransformation of pteroylmonoglutamic acid in man: a model for future studies. (1989) (47)
- Recurrent neural tube defects, risk factors and vitamins. (1986) (47)
- Incidence of congenital abnormalities in Liverpool, 1960-64. (1968) (46)
- Preluxation of the Hip‐Joint (1962) (44)
- Anencephaly in Liverpool (1964) (43)
- A rapid and specific HPLC-electrochemical method for the determination of endogenous 5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid in plasma using solid phase sample preparation with internal standardization. (1989) (43)
- Spina bífida in Liverpool (1965) (40)
- Investigation of folate intake and metabolism in women who have had two pregnancies complicated by neural tube defects (1994) (38)
- Investigation of factors influencing folate status in women who have had a neural tube defect‐affected infant (1993) (37)
- Neural tube defect recurrence after 'partial' vitamin supplementation. (1989) (36)
- Neural‐tube defects and vitamins: the need for a randomized clinical trial (1985) (35)
- Congenital rubella in babies of south Asian women in England and Wales: an excess and its causes. (1987) (33)
- Can vitamins prevent neural tube defects? (1984) (32)
- Biotransformation of pteroylmonoglutamic acid during absorption: implications of Michaelis-Menten kinetics. (1989) (32)
- Onset and severity of hearing loss due to congenital rubella infection. (1989) (32)
- The effects of maternal folic acid and vitamin C nutrition in early pregnancy on reproductive performance in the guinea-pig (1986) (31)
- Update of new risk factors and prevention of neural-tube defects. (1993) (30)
- The Liverpool Congenital Abnormalities Registry (1962) (26)
- Meclozine and Fetal Malformations: a Prospective Study (1964) (26)
- Leucocyte ascorbic acid and pregnancy (1978) (25)
- Vitamin A, Pregnancy, and Oral Contraceptives (1974) (25)
- Immunisation of the preterm baby. (1994) (23)
- CEREBRO‐HEPATO‐RENAL SYNDROME (1968) (22)
- Neural tube defects: prevention by vitamin supplements. (1982) (22)
- High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of carbamazepine and carbamazepine 10,11-epoxide in plasma and saliva following solid-phase sample extraction. (1986) (22)
- Anencephalus and water hardness in south-west Lancashire. (1971) (21)
- Maternal Vitamin Nutrition and Malformations of the Neural Tube (1991) (20)
- ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES AND BIRTH DEFECTS (1981) (20)
- Rubella in the United Kingdom, 1970-1983. (1985) (19)
- Rubella vaccination and pregnancy: preliminary report of a national survey. (1986) (18)
- Uptake and Utilization of DL-5-[methyl-14C] Tetrahydropteroylmonoglutamate by Cultured Cytotrophoblasts Associated with Neural Tube Defects (1993) (18)
- National Congenital Rubella Surveillance Programme 1971-81. (1982) (17)
- B.C.G. Dissemination in Congenital Hypogammaglobulinaemia (1963) (17)
- Congenital Leukaemia with Parental Consanguinity (1961) (17)
- Folate nutrition in early pregnancy. (1983) (16)
- Oculo‐Auriculo‐Vertebral Syndrome (Goldenhar's Syndrome) (1964) (15)
- Solid-Phase Extraction of Carbamazepine and Two Major Metabolites from Plasma for Analysis by HPLC (1987) (13)
- Towards the Prevention of Fetal Malformation (1978) (13)
- De Lange's Amsterdam Dwarfs Syndrome Introductory Review with Two Case Reports (1965) (13)
- Drugs, infections, and congenital abnormalities. (1978) (13)
- National congenital rubella surveillance, 1971-75. (1977) (12)
- Delayed detection of congenital hearing loss in high risk infants. (1990) (11)
- Congenital Heart Block (1959) (11)
- National Congenital Rubella Surveillance Programme 1 July 1971-30 June 1984. (1985) (11)
- Apparent prevention of neural tube defects by periconceptional vitamin supplementation. 1981. (2011) (10)
- The Thalidomide Legacy (1965) (10)
- Prevalence of neural tube defects in the Yorkshire Region. (1989) (10)
- Vascular Ring: A Cause of Congenital Stridor (1953) (9)
- Role of circulating soluble immune complexes in disease (9)
- THE OROFACIODIGITAL SYNDROME (1964) (7)
- Vitamins and neural tube defects. (1985) (7)
- Plasma prostacyclin from birth to adolescence. (1982) (7)
- The Early Diagnosis of Congenital Abnormalities (1964) (6)
- SMITH‐LEMLI‐OPITZ SYNDROME (1968) (6)
- The challenges of teratology. (1980) (6)
- Crying wolf on drug safety (1982) (6)
- Dissemination in Congenital Hypogammaglobulinaemia. (1963) (6)
- Multivitamins for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects (1989) (6)
- Primary prevention of neural tube defects with folic acid. (1993) (5)
- FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME (1979) (5)
- Fall and rise of immunity to rubella. (1987) (5)
- Multiple abnormalities in a child with partial duplications of 10p and 13q from a 3:1 segregation of a maternal t(10;13) translocation. (1990) (5)
- Spina bifida and vitamins. (1983) (5)
- Hand and foot preference in thalidomide children. (1970) (4)
- A clinician's view of teratogenesis. (1987) (4)
- MORE ABOUT RUBELLA (1963) (4)
- Spontaneous Rupture of Tongue-tie (1959) (4)
- ... and children first? (1985) (4)
- The consequences of antenatal rubella testing. (1986) (4)
- Congenital rubella in Great Britain 1971-1988. (1990) (4)
- Intracranial calcification and childhood medulloblastoma. (1983) (4)
- Folic acid metabolism in placental cells associated with neural tube defects (1990) (3)
- THALIDOMIDE AND AFTER (1962) (3)
- GENETICS OF CLEFT LIP AND PALATE (1966) (3)
- Prognostic Value of Neurological Examinations in the Newborn (1961) (3)
- MECLOZINE AND FOETAL MALFORMATIONS: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY (1964) (3)
- Prenatal influences and prenatal diagnosis. (1971) (2)
- New horizons in medical ethics. Research investigations and the fetus. (1973) (2)
- Maternal health and the unborn child (1972) (2)
- “Ancoloxin” and Foetal Abnormalities (1962) (2)
- Design and interpretation of clinical trials (1985) (2)
- FOLATES AND THE FETUS (1977) (2)
- Congenital Heart Block (1960) (2)
- Safety of Bendectin (1980) (2)
- Comparative, maternal and epidemiologic aspects (1978) (2)
- External ear malformation: Epidemiology, genetics, and natural history (1980) (2)
- Post-marketing surveillance of new medicines. (1977) (2)
- Epidemiology of malformations: inspiration and perspiration. (1974) (2)
- RUBELLA EMBRYOPATHY: THE ODDS (1964) (2)
- Career intentions of senior house officers in paediatrics (1982) (1)
- A gem of a book (1988) (1)
- FOLATES AND THE FETUS (1977) (1)
- Third International Conference on Congenital Malformations (1969) (1)
- ANENCEPHALUSAND WATER HARDNESSIN SOUTH-WESTLANCASHIRE (1971) (1)
- Development Defects and Syndromes (1979) (1)
- ‘Is This a Syndrome?’ No. 1 of a Series (1964) (1)
- REPORTING OF MALFORMATIONS (1963) (1)
- Rash in early pregnancy. (1983) (1)
- Research on Malformations (1962) (1)
- DEFORMITY DRUGS: A SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE (1963) (1)
- Epidemiology of Anencephalus and Spina Bifida (1980) (1)
- The prevention of congenital abnormalities. (1971) (1)
- Monitoring birth defects: and seeking the causes. (1995) (1)
- Letters to the Editor (0)
- Alcohol and the fetus. (1984) (0)
- FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA OR THE RILEY‐DAY SYNDROME (1967) (0)
- The malformed infant and child: An illustrated guide: by Richard M. Goodman and Robert J. Gorlin Oxford University Press, London, 1983 460 pp, £16 paper back (1984) (0)
- Investigation of factors influencing folate status in women who have had a neural tube defect‐affected infant (1994) (0)
- Miscellanea: Invitation cards on the table (1985) (0)
- The Action of Drugs on the Embryo (1963) (0)
- Ethical problems. (1982) (0)
- To what extent can regional grain-size trends be decoded to gain information about tectonic subsidence rates and sediment flux? Case studies from the Eocene Pobla Basin, Spanish Pyrenees (2009) (0)
- Annotations Drugs , infections , and congenital abnormalities (0)
- THE WHISTLING FACE SYNDROME (1969) (0)
- Rubella immunisation for girls over 14 years. (1989) (0)
- Educational placement of children with congenital rubella. (1976) (0)
- working? are the recommendations neural tube defects in relation to folic acid International retrospective cohort study of (2005) (0)
- The action of drugs on the embryo. Clinical aspects. (1963) (0)
- Results of Treatment (1982) (0)
- Congenital malformations. A report of a study of series on consecutive births in 24 centres (1967) (0)
- 12 articles of 1926 (1986) (0)
- Congenital malformations. (1967) (0)
- Princess Louise Children's Hospital (1955) (0)
- Babies with Ectromelia (1962) (0)
- Points: Developmental retardation (1980) (0)
- STUDY GROUP ON CLINICAL RESEARCH IN HUMAN MALFORMATIONS (1963) (0)
- Elastic Ankle-bands and Cramp (1961) (0)
- Mental Retardation Syndromes Recognised after Birth: Problems of Diagnosis and Management (1988) (0)
- Suggestions for the Bibliography (1964) (0)
- NEW CONCEPTS OF RUBELLA EMBRYOPATHY (1966) (0)
- The Family Fund database--an underused research resource. (1995) (0)
- The genetic disorders of the newborn--their diagnosis, treatment and prevention. (1967) (0)
- Mercury Absorption and Psoriasis (1956) (0)
- Community medicine (1979) (0)
- With commentary (1984) (0)
- CONGENITAL ASYMMETRY (1965) (0)
- Professor R. W. Smithells comments (1978) (0)
- RUBELLA IN PREGNANCY (1962) (0)
- Breast‐feeding in New Zealand (1961) (0)
- The Prevention of Handicap of Early Pregnancy Origin: Some Evidence for the Value of Good Health before Conception (1982) (0)
- ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES AND BIRTH DEFECTS (1981) (0)
- PRENATAL INFLUENCES IN PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS (1979) (0)
- Recognition and dynamics of syntectonic sediment routing systems, southern Pyrenees (2009) (0)
- Epidemiology of congenital defects. Methodology. (1971) (0)
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