Combating Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke, and Other Major Diseases: Hearings...89-1...February 9, 10, 1965

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Page 5 - Institute will be used only for the purposes for which paid and in accordance with the applicable provisions of this...
Page 186 - The most common forms of cancer in males are cancer of the skin, lung, prostate, large intestine, stomach, rectum, and bladder. Among females, the most common forms in the order of incidence are cancer of the breast, skin, cervix uteri, large intestine, corpus uteri, ovary, rectum, and stomach. Under present conditions, some form of cancer will affect 24 percent of men and 27 percent of women now living. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States ; in 1963 it accounted for...
Page 87 - To afford to the medical profession and the medical institutions of the Nation, through such cooperative arrangements, the opportunity of making available to their patients the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases...
Page 203 - ... to live and to work within the limits of his disability but to the hilt of his capabilities.
Page 207 - CHILDREN is prOvided under programs of all the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands when the father or mother is disabled, absent from home, or dead.
Page 28 - We placed advertisements in several major medical journals, such as the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal, describing briefly the Albany regional hospital program and the various training programs offered.
Page 166 - As you may recall from the report of the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke...
Page 34 - Houston and a member of the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke.
Page 2 - ... (c) Funds appropriated pursuant to this title shall not be available to pay the cost of hospital, medical, or other care of patients except to the extent it is, as determined in accordance with regulations, incident to those research...
Page 14 - Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed To the Congress of the United States: Last year the Congress by its action declared: the Nation's No.

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