Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just 36 hours after a swirl of publicity broke last week over White House Health Policy Adviser Dr. Peter Bourne, 38, his letter of resignation landed with an unwelcome thump upon the desk of his already beleaguered friend, Jimmy Carter. As both Bourne and White House aides agreed, the resignation was an attempt to calm a growing furor, but it came too late to prevent front-page newspaper investigation of a politically explosive topic: the illegal use of drugs, including marijuana and cocaine, in the White House and elsewhere in the nation's capital...
...case suddenly became more than routine once it was known that the doctor who had prescribed the drug was Bourne, Carter's chief adviser on mental health and narcotics policies. In 1970, while Bourne was working as a psychiatrist in Atlanta, then Governor Carter appointed him to head Georgia's office of drug abuse. Bourne later became one of the first aides to urge Carter to run for the Presidency. When he was appointed to the $51,000-a-year White House position last year, the President described him as "probably the world's foremost expert...
...Carter camp, enabling the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to vote 22 to 21 against mandatory hospital cost controls. Instead, the committee endorsed voluntary efforts by hospitals to cut costs. The panel also approved a national commission-with no enforcement powers-to monitor medical costs. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano bitterly blamed the defeat on Russo, who changed his views after lobbying by members of the Illinois Hospital Association...
...died in the Dallas-Fort Worth area because of the heat wave, most of them elderly poor who live in homes without air conditioning. Weather forecasters predict the heat wave will continue this week, breaking a record of 25 consecutive days of 100° temperatures set in 1952. Although health authorities are warning area residents to stay out of the midday sun, joggers still pack city parks at noon. Golfers also show up on the courses. But they are playing with a new rule: the ball can be moved without penalty if it falls into a crack opened in fairways...
...clamor had its effect. Researchers like 'Steptoe and Edwards made fewer and fewer 'public reports on their work. In the U.S., almost all research with human eggs came to an abrupt halt; under a 1975 federal order, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was barred from funding any invitro fertilization experiments unless they were first approved by a national ethics advisory board appointed by the HEW Secretary. Perhaps because it involved such a touchy subject, the panel was not formed until January of this year. One of its first orders of business: to weigh the long-pending application from...