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Guardedly optimistic, the U.S. Public Health Service considers malaria licked as a public health menace, but it is still "a sleeping giant." Says PHS's Dr. Robert M. Coatney: "We shouldn't do away with our police force. As soon as we relax, it will come back...
...nationwide educational program to encourage housewives to ask the grocer for iodized salt. When Ohio's Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton introduced a compulsory iodization bill, the Salt Producers' Association opposed it, protesting that it was medication by legislation. But the producers have assured Mrs. Bolton and PHS that they will use their advertising and publicity programs to promote the use of iodized salt. Mrs. Bolton, whose 22nd Ohio District is in the goiter belt, had taken up the campaign when she learned that iodine-deficient mothers often have feebleminded children...
After three years of painstaking experiments to remove the fatal factor from the vaccine, PHS's Dr. J. Frederick Bell believes that he has succeeded. With a team of researchers, he has produced a vaccine without the paralytic factor, which is still effective against rabies in guinea pigs. Vaccine producers throughout the country are testing the process, getting ready to use it in making human vaccine...
Last week Dr. Leonard Scheele, Surgeon General of the PHS, reported on the ten-year-old VD-control program. Said he: "We're no longer fighting a defensive battle . . . We have been able to take the offensive." Deaths from syphilis dropped from about 21,000 in 1938 to 13,000 in 1948, the number of civilian cases reported from...
...three-year provision seems to rule out Dr. Thomas Parran, former PHS Surgeon General (TIME, Feb. 23), who had been considered a likely choice. Dr. Parran has been careful in his public statements, but Congressmen have accused him of using "extraordinary executive pressure" to stir up public demand for socialized medicine. Except for a six-year term as New York State health commissioner, Dr. Parran, graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, has served in the PHS ever since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn...