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Helpful. The chief apologists for Kinsey (who was not invited to the meeting, although he was in Manhattan) were medical men. Public health men, said Dr. J. R. Heller of the U.S. Public Health Service, have learned much from the book. The PHS will aim its antivenereal disease campaigns at parts of the population which Kinsey believes to be most sexually active (those with only grade-school education). PHS will also adopt Kinsey's interview techniques in tracking down sources of venereal disease...
Last week, President Truman fired Dr. Parran from his top job (he remains in the PHS) without even the usual polite little note of farewell. Washington speculated on the reason. Federal Security Boss Oscar R. Ewing, whose agency controls PHS, explained that Dr. Parran's re-appointment for another four-year term (his fourth) would have made his tenure too long.* Politicians suspected that Parran, who had been New York health commissioner under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, was just one more New Dealer dealt out. Medical experts thought that Parran's leaving, among other things, represented a shift...
Parran's successor is tall, soft-spoken Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, 41, head of the National Cancer Institute, career man in the PHS and an Assistant Surgeon General (one of eight). Dr. Scheele takes over his "most important position" on April...
...reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association by PHS Drs. Hugh L. C. Wilkerson and Leo P. Krall, the study confirmed what many specialists have suspected: that diabetes is on the increase in the U.S. and is far more widespread than official reports have indicated. If the figures for Oxford are representative of the nation as a whole, there are some 2,800,000 U.S. diabetics (top previous estimate: 1,500,000) - and half of them don't know...
Meanwhile, dentists have discovered a new fluorine treatment for children which also looks promising: a solution of sodium fluoride applied directly to the teeth. Already widely tested, the treatment has been found to reduce caries (tooth decay) up to 40%. PHS officers issued a warning, however, against some other fluorine fads. Not recommended: fluorinated dentifrices (they do no good) and fluorine tablets (unwisely used, they may mottle teeth and bones, cause kidney trouble...