Word: uhse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But when Joe's time to enter politics arrived in 1986, he reminded very few people of his father and uncles. He was not smooth, not polished and certainly not articulate. Reporters covering the congressional race dubbed him "The Wizard of Uhs," because of his jumbled sentence fragments. But that...
Wacker says UHS has distributed pamphlets, trained clinical and mental health workers and the expanded the Health Educator's office.
"Back in the mid-1970s, we discovered that smoking among Harvard students was very low," Wacker says. UHS found that around 10 percent of Harvard students smoked when they entered the College--compared with 35 percent nationwide for their age group. By the middle of the decade, when the Surgeon...
UHS has dealt with large scale public health campaigns before. In the 1970s, during a severe influenza outbreak, UHS organized a massive inoculation effort. "It was planned for months. There was a cast of thousands. We administered 10,000 shots in three days," Postel says.
UHS and Harvard-affiliated hospitals can care for people who contract AIDS or test positive for the virus, say directors. An insurance program introduced this year at UHS to help cover pharmaceutical costs will help defray costs for AZT, an expensive drug used to treat AIDS, they say.