Robert Aquinas McNally Something in the Genes: Kaiser Permanente's Continuing Commitment to Research The Permanante Journal, 5, 4, Fall 2001.
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"At the end of the war, Kaiser Permanente was following two research tracks. One track began because Henry J Kaiser's son, Henry Jr, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). Paul De Kruif, best-selling author of Microbe Hunters, directed the senior Kaiser to Herman Kabat, MD, ( -1997) a physical medicine specialist who was developing a new approach to treating MS. In 1946, the industrialist and the doctor together established the Kabat-Kaiser Institute, whose purpose-among others-was to conduct medical research in neuromuscular disorders. A series of Permanente Foundation Medical Bulletin research articles began in 1947.
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