Word: healthfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program like World War II's Manhattan Project? What should be the Federal Government's share in financing research? Informed answers to these questions-literally, matters of life and death for millions-came this week from a committee set up a year ago by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...years, the U.S. has multiplied its total outlays for medical research by a factor of four (see diagram). The sum will reach at least $400 million in 1958, including $220 million in congressional appropriations. $130 million spent by industry, $50 million by foundations, voluntary health associations, universities and their medical schools. Is this enough? For the present, yes was the consensus of the experts quizzed by Bayne-Jones's group. Or as Dr. James A. Shannon, director of the National Institutes of Health (which handles 70% of the Government's outlays in this field), last year told Congress...
...theology, in a lecture at the University of Michigan. A utilitarian faith, declared Theologian Niebuhr (brother of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr), is "the kind that says it is a good thing to believe in God because it will make you prosperous. A utilitarian faith takes the form of mental health. It allays anxiety. It makes you feel as you feel when you've had a good hot bath. This is the adjustment of religion to the American way of life, to the refrigerator and the Cadillac way of life. This kind of faith never says: 'I tremble...
...Seventh International Cancer Congress in London this week heard the sobering results of a sweeping study of the effects of smoking on the death rate from cancer and other diseases. Author of the report: Statistician Harold F. Dorn of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dorn's project was begun in 1954 as a check on the disturbing findings from the American Cancer Society's famed Hammond & Horn survey of 188,000 U.S. males. Researcher Dorn threw his statistical net even wider: it covered 198,000 men (and a sprinkling of women) holding Government life insurance...
Died. Andrija Stampar, M.D., 69, president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, who helped set up the U.N.'s World Health Organization, served as chairman (1948) of the first World Health Assembly, ran it with what one delegate called a "unanimity complex," bringing all considerations to the personal level with such stock remarks as "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item" and "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal"; after long illness; in Zagreb, Yugoslavia...