sentences:  Dr. Avery's observation formed the basis of a breakthrough paper published in the American Journal of Diseases of Children in 1959.By 1995 there were 1,460 infant deaths a year in the U.S. from RDS, down from almost 10,000 a year twenty-five years earlier.In 1960, Avery became an assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and pediatrician in charge of newborn nurseries.