Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1992: Nondepartmental witnesses

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Page 432 - We must increase our efforts to identify and educate more of the talent of our Nation. This requires programs that will give assurance that no student of ability will be denied an opportunity for higher education because of financial need...
Page 432 - The Congress hereby finds and declares that the security of the Nation requires the fullest development of the mental resources and technical skills of its young men and women.
Page 306 - They are the Meharry Medical College's Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, in Nashville, TN; the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, CA; the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA; the Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy in Tallahassee, Fl; the Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Houston, TX; the Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy in New Orleans, LA; and the Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine...
Page 624 - ... to act as a national representative for physicians engaged in the study and management of patients with renal disease and related disorders; and 3) to serve as a major resource for the development of national health policy concerning renal disease.
Page 49 - We must not relax our effort to push back the frontiers of knowledge in basic and applied research into the mental processes, in therapy, and in other phases of research with a bearing upon mental illness.
Page 255 - Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Page 245 - College is a 18,000 member non-profit professional medical society and teaching institution whose purpose is to foster optimal cardiovascular care and disease prevention through professional education, promotion of research, and leadership in the development of standards and formulation of health care policy.
Page 240 - ... develop cardiovascular diseases later in life. The estimated cost of cardiovascular diseases in 1994 will be $128.0 billion in medical expenses and lost productivity. Costs for patients with cardiovascular diseases grow because we are treating disease with expensive technology, not preventing it. Our ability to control cardiovascular diseases depends on the level of quality of overall support of basic and clinical research and prevention efforts. Throughout its history, the AHA has emphasized...
Page 131 - States, the District of Columbia, and our Nation's Territories. These agencies constitute the State partners in the State-Federal Program of Rehabilitation Services for persons with mental and/or physical disabilities provided by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Page 811 - Create and expand job and career opportunities for individuals with disabilities in the competitive labor market by engaging the talent and leadership of private industry as partners in the rehabilitation process...

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