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...Memphis started a venereal disease control program which Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U.S. Public Health Service has since praised as having "the soundest base of any large city [program] on record...
...Atom? Last week in Washington hearings opened on the $100,000,000 Neely-Pepper bill, which would marshal "the best cancer brains in the world" for an all-out war on the disease, in the same way that the Manhattan Project conquered the atom. Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U.S. Public Health .Service told a jampacked opening-day audience that there are not enough properly trained cancer researchers as yet even to begin such a program. Why not, he asked, use the existing facilities and experience of the National Cancer Institute as a nucleus for the research organization...
...medical and scientific experts agreed with him. Dr. Howard J. Curtis of Columbia University, one of the foremost researchers on the atom bomb, thought that an entirely new government agency should be created. And when Dr. Parran suggested that about ten years would be required to spend the $100,000,000, crusty Representative Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, co-author of the bill, exploded: "We have got to stop piddling around with cancer research. ... I don't care a cuss if the Public Health Service or Harvard College gets the money, if someone will just do what Roosevelt and Churchill...
...instigation of China and Brazil (and of ex-U.S. Secretary of State Hull), 17 nations have approved the idea of a new international health organization. Last week 30 U.S. citizens-including Surgeon General Thomas Parran, Mrs. La Fell Dickinson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and Dr. Victor Heiser of the National Association of Manufacturers-met to talk over what the U.S. wants the organization to be. The talks will serve as preparation for an international conference to be held, probably, next spring...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week made his annual report to Congress on the state of the nation's health, which the U.S. Public Health Service during the last year spent $115,000,000 trying to better. Some particulars...