Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican Open Forum holds its first meeting of the year tonight when it takes up the question, "Is There a Case for Compulsory Health Insurance?" at 8 p. m. in Eliot Junior Common Room...
Russia, the ultimate in state control, has the ultimate in state health insurance. Medical service is free to all. Doctors and dentists are assigned and paid by the state. Benefits, however, are limited by facilities available. Relative example: Russia has one dentist for 14,000 people; Britain has one dentist for 3,271 people, the U.S. one for 1,885 people...
Like Brazil's five-year SALTE Plan-short for Saude (health), Alimentos (food), Transporte (transport), Energia (power)-the report recognized that all sectors of Brazil's economy need shoring up. It offered a wealth of specific advice on raising industrial capital (by limiting real-estate investment, which in some years absorbs as much as two-thirds of Brazilian savings), boosting manpower (by vocational training and selective immigration), improving transportation (by coordinating transport services and expanding storage space...
...primary syphilis and gonorrhea could be cured simultaneously in three days with only one injection (45? worth of penicillin), it would be big medical news indeed. It was reported last week that such good news is not an impossible hope. Dr. R. C. Arnold of the U.S. Public Health Services' Venereal Disease Control Research Laboratory announced that in 85 test cases, a single injection of 300,000 units (one cubic centimeter) of penicillin made syphilis noninfectious within 72 hours, and has kept it that way for most patients during the six to eight months the experiment has been running...
...Orders of the Day." On arrival, each player filled out a detailed personal-history form and got a serial number. ("Pennsylvania," wrote one man in answer to the question "State of Health?") Each morning, after 7:30 a.m. reveille, there were fresh, mimeographed "orders of the day." Sample: 9:30-Unit A to batting cages 1 & 2; Unit B to pitcher's balk practice; Unit C to sliding pit practice. At the blast of a whistle, students shifted to the next class...