Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representatives of 50 statewide public health agencies, labor, and agricultural groups yesterday endorsed federal subsidies for local public health service at a meeting at the Medical School...
Representatives of 50 Massachusetts colleges and citizens' organizations will hold a meeting to discuss health legislation at the Medical School at 2 p.m. today. Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, professor of Public Health Practice, will lead the forum after speeches by government health experts...
...year ago, two doctors announced that they had isolated a virus which causes one type of common cold (TIME, Jan. 5). It was a good start, but there was a lot of slow work ahead. Drs. Norman H. Topping and Leon T. Atlas, at the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., had to keep testing their virus, called MR-I,* on human volunteers. They put the virus, kept alive in fertilized chicken eggs, into the noses of inmates of District...
This is the story of another Alexander Hamilton, a mildly libertine Scottish physician who left Maryland in 1744 on horseback, with his Negro slave Dromo, on a trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...
Fairbank pointed out how the Communists, calling themselves the Army of Liberation, have reorganized the ancient family and village systems. They have organized and educated the youth besides modernizing agriculture and public health...