Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public health authorities and the medical profession in Japan have been slow, even reluctant to deal with alcoholics. The Japanese government budgeted a paltry $90,000 for alcohol research last year, while collecting $3.5 billion in alcohol revenues. In all of Japan, there are only 800 beds reserved for alcoholics and only three clinics specializing in outpatients. Of the 8,000 psychiatric specialists in Japan, fewer than 1% specialize in alcohol and its related problems. Oddly enough, Dr. Katsumi Meguro. director of mental health at the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Tokyo, seems to be unconcerned by this lack...
...issues staff of the fledgling Jimmy Carter presidential campaign. "It was an incredible education," he recalls, "the kind I don't think you could ever get from a textbook." Paul Albritton, 21, a Yale junior who spent last year working in Latin America for a Houston-based public health organization, echoes Miller. "You go for so many years in a classroom with theoretical models being placed in front of you," he complains. "Getting out and working, getting your hands dirty, gives you a much better idea of what you are studying...
...enforce antipollution standards. Agency officials deny overzealousness, claiming that they are merely working under a program that has matured and is finally up to speed. Says Deputy Administrator Barbara Blum: "Recall is not a pleasant word. But as long as polluting cars continue threatening public health, recall is word upon." EPA will continue to utter and act upon...
...weak to rise. Only a day before Lincoln was shot, his wife Mary wrote of the President's "severe headache" and indisposition. Concludes Schwartz: the faulty aortic valves resulted in "a decompensating left ventricle which was the undiagnosed or concealed cause of the President's failing health...
...bugs have lately had the upper hand. Making a comeback from their near defeat after World War II by DDT and other chemical formulations, insects have become immune to many pesticides; their lot has also been made easier by the banning of many bug killers that are harmful to health and environment. As a result, insects are again on the march, spreading disease and inflicting costly damage on crops and forests. But now man is about to unleash a new and Machiavellian weapon against which bugs seemingly have no defense...