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... tests to detect unsuspected diseases , pathologists have been doing urinalyses , tests for the diagnosis of syphilis and routine blood counts on all patients admitted to their hospitals for years . Since 1960 , pathologists concerned ...
... tests to detect unsuspected diseases , pathologists have been doing urinalyses , tests for the diagnosis of syphilis and routine blood counts on all patients admitted to their hospitals for years . Since 1960 , pathologists concerned ...
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... tests actually do lead to a saving of lives , we have a simple reply . The existing scientific data proving the value of the control of risk factors and early treatment after the use of a detection test are every bit as good as the data ...
... tests actually do lead to a saving of lives , we have a simple reply . The existing scientific data proving the value of the control of risk factors and early treatment after the use of a detection test are every bit as good as the data ...
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... tests , do you think that they would have had any effect on the number of cases - if we had tests several years earlier in the field of preventive medicine to antici- pate trouble ? Dr. DEBAKEY . Oh , yes , Senator . I am convinced that ...
... tests , do you think that they would have had any effect on the number of cases - if we had tests several years earlier in the field of preventive medicine to antici- pate trouble ? Dr. DEBAKEY . Oh , yes , Senator . I am convinced that ...
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... tests , particularly old people beginning to worry about their health . If the tests show that they are in perfectly normal condition for their age bracket , this is valuable . Dr. DEBAKEY . You are quite right , Senator . I have seen ...
... tests , particularly old people beginning to worry about their health . If the tests show that they are in perfectly normal condition for their age bracket , this is valuable . Dr. DEBAKEY . You are quite right , Senator . I have seen ...
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... tests when an individual is screened for more than one disease at a single visit . The fact that any given test , technique or procedure is available as an aid in the diagnosis of a particular disease does not automatically qualify this ...
... tests when an individual is screened for more than one disease at a single visit . The fact that any given test , technique or procedure is available as an aid in the diagnosis of a particular disease does not automatically qualify this ...
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Page 4 - An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing...
Page 18 - The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one: it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
Page 132 - Disease, held in 1951, defined screening as "the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of tests, examinations, or other procedures which can be applied rapidly.
Page 73 - Peterson (Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch, Division of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, Md.).
Page 43 - Aging, the National Council of Senior Citizens, and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Page 339 - University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80220 Western Orthopedic Association William H.
Page 33 - Where an individual is in an institution and his condition is such that the availability of medical care in such institution is not a principal reason for his presence there, only that part of the cost of care in the institution as Is attributable to medical care (as...
Page 337 - Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians and the American Hospital Association.
Page 55 - ... or wilfully neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her...
Page 33 - ... this subparagraph) in such institution is a principal reason for his presence there, and meals and lodging are furnished as a necessary incident to such care, the entire cost of medical care and meals and lodging at the institution, which are furnished while the individual requires continual medical care, shall constitute an expense for medical care. For example, medical care includes the entire cost of institutional care for a person who is mentally ill and unsafe when left alone.