Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty K. Heaton '51, Annex Community Service Committee chairman, last week told PBH that the Radcliffe Health Center officials said last night that they students to give their blood. But Health Center officials said last night that they had never issued any such ruling...
...cause for minor self-congratulation--at least compared with the blasts from outside. But when the City of Cambridge denies Harold Laski the use of a hall because Mayour Neville considers him "pro-Communist, anti-Catholic, and anti-religious," it is a sign that all is not so health elsewhere...
...hospital and District Health Department footed hospital bills (already upward of $3,500); laboratories ran expensive tests free; the Red Cross furnished the necessary plasma. Six strangers, all servicemen, volunteered skin grafts. In December, when Mike was at his lowest, the simultaneous arrival of four enormous birthday cakes from well-wishers gave his morale a badly needed boost...
...accurate test than the Wassermann. In the blood of syphilitics, they found specific antibodies (counter-substances) against Treponema pallidum, the spirochete that causes syphilis. Announcement of their discovery caused a stir last week at a symposium held in Washington by the American Venereal Disease Association and the U.S. Public Health Service...
...week's end, the Deutsch articles had prompted health officials to some replies and explanations. The main theme of the experts: there is no cause for alarm. No dangerously contaminated samples of milk have yet been found. Further, said a U.S. Public Health official: "Statements that DDT is responsible for causing the so-called virus X disease of man and X disease of cattle are totally without foundation. Both of these diseases were recognized before the utilization of DDT as an insecticide." Nonetheless, one Department of Agriculture warning was repeated: "DDT should not be used for insect control...