Word: health
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physician Hawley offered this explanation: nowadays, nearly everybody has insurance to cover the basic cost of surgery, and every insured patient is a paying patient. At the Manhattan dinner where Hawley spoke, Dr. David M. Heyman got in a plug for systems such as the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, of which he is honorary board chairman. Under its group practice, said Dr. Heyman, doctors receive no extra fees for operations-so "there's no incentive for unnecessary surgery...
...victim in Spallanzani), forced her to take full care of him, gave him little treatment. Once he broke out to make a placarded public protest-in vain. Again his "acquaintance are verily estranged" from him. The few who try to visit him are kept out by the Ministry of Health's pettifogging rules...
...research teams, a continent apart, are hot on the trail of poles-apart methods of combatting measles. Traditionally one of the "inevitable" childhood fevers, measles is widely underrated as a health menace. For children under three and for adults, it is a threat to life itself; at any age it can cause brain inflammation, which now (since Salk vaccine) kills more victims than does polio and handicaps about as many by damaging the brain. The progress reports: ¶ Harvard's Dr. John F. Enders (Nobel prizeman because his test-tube foundations made the Salk vaccine possible) and Dr. Samuel...
...average graduate of the Harvard Business School, Class of 1949, "faces the world in good health and with equanimity" as well as a yearly income of $14,000, according to the June issue of Fortune magazine...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, praised the decision to start working drawings. "We have been waiting 24 years to obtain adequate facilities for the University...