Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news was not good. Dr. Ronald Altman, chief epidemiologist for the state's department of health, revealed that Rutherford residents had suffered 32 cases of leukemia and related cancers during the past five years. The eleven cases of Hodgkin's disease, he said, were more than would have been expected in a town with Rutherford's 20,000 population. The total number of leukemia cases (13) was not unusual, he went on, but the distribution of the cases by age range was. A town of Rutherford's size could normally expect .58 cases of leukemia...
...Government also could develop special programs for coping with highly inflationary sectors of the economy. The standout one is the field of health care; Carter noted that daily hospital charges have rocketed from $15 in 1950 to more than $200 now, and doctors' fees have risen much faster than other consumer prices. One big reason: Government and private health-insurance plans guarantee payment of "reasonable and customary" fees, which in practice has meant just about anything that a doctor or hospital can get away with. Carter last week pleaded with Congress to pass a bill he sent up last...
...recent addition to the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act made financial aid to U.S. medical schools contingent upon acceptance of third-year medical students who have been trained abroad. Johns Hopkins and 17 other medical schools threatened to forfeit Government money rather than comply with the ruling. In December the legislation was changed to encourage, rather than require, medical schools to accept a small percentage of their enrollment from Americans studying abroad...
...ignore the controversial Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments, which ruled that if any students in a college receive federal assistance, the school must be classified as a "recipient institution" and must comply with the hundreds of regulations imposed on Government-supported schools by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Hillsdale has launched a $29 million fund drive to aid its students should the Government refuse to provide their loans and scholarships...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare has rejected three desegregation plans submitted by the 16-campus University of North Carolina and threatened to cut off some of the $89 million that it receives in aid each year. U.N.C. President William Friday insists that the system is "committed to" desegregation and that the real dispute centers on Washington's "intrusion" into university affairs...