Word: phs
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...programs for the medically indigent. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana and Mississippi are hoping that the deadline will be extended, but are not expected to join Medicaid before Jan. 1 in any case. Two states have special problems: Alaska, which would have to take over from the Public Health Service (PHS) the cost of treating 55,000 Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos; and Arizona, which would have to care for 83,000 Indians (the most of any state) who are now the responsibility of the PHS or of individual counties...
...killed 19,000, will cause, in healthy victims, illnesses similar to those resulting from earlier strains of A2. Average severity: two to five days of aches, pains and fever. For the elderly and infirm, however, A-2/Hong Kong/68 poses a threat to life. With this in mind, PHS experts have advised physicians to give inoculations of either old or new vaccine only to persons who run the risk of severe complications when they come down with winter's most miserable complaint...
...Service reports. The 1967 record was marred by two delayed deaths of Americans from dog bites received overseas, one in Guinea, one in Egypt. Still, there is no reason for relaxing and forgetting about rabies. Because wild animals, especially foxes and skunks, are still a reservoir of rabies virus, PHS urges continued vaccination of dogs...
...machine, the Nashville dentists use a stainless-steel plate with a rectangular window to accomplish collimation; they also use much more shielding and a steel bracket to hold the film just where it ought to be, without subjecting the patient's hand to radiation. The result, according to PHS tests, is a radiation dose delivered to the skin only one-half to one-fourth that from a recommended standard machine. Radiation to the cornea of the eye is reduced to one-eighteenth...
Some dentists dismiss such precautionary measures as too costly and unnecessary. But all radiation (except that used in medical treatment for specific diseases) is bad. The PHS urges that every patient's body be protected with a lead apron, and it is backing several inventive dentists in their efforts to develop safer machines...