Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bruising. His story was a common one to Britons who, for the last eight months, have trooped into doctors' and dentists' offices to get free medical care under the Labor government's National Health Service. Last week the government delivered the bill for all the spectacles, dentures and trusses. Like many a doctor's bill, it was a shocker...
Aging of the American population demands a new attack on public health problems with an emphasis on old age diseases, Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele said yesterday...
Speaking before a Medical School forum on public health, he said "there must be a program to control and prevent chronic diseases." Since major epidemics have been brought under control, by 1975 nearly 11 percent of our population will be 65 years old or more." Yet little has been done to make that maturity healthful," Scheele declared...
...present we do know how to prevent these diseases in the true sense of protection. Early detection and treatment are the only available methods to prevent serious consequences or untimely death. Public health programs," he continued, "can therefore help states in expanding their treatment facilities...
...critical analysis of the Taft-Hartley Act, Slichter branded as un-workable and unadvisable prohibition of the closed shop, the requirement of union shop elections, and the present method of dealing with disputes imperiling national health and safety...