Detection and Prevention of Chronic Disease Utilizing Multiphasic Health Screening Techniques: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly ...89-2, September 20-22, 19661966 - 648 pages |
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... believe that many of our senior citizens will now get needed treatment which before was unsought through fear of financial embarrassment . We hope that the current attack on the killer diseases - heart , cancer and stroke through ...
... believe that many of our senior citizens will now get needed treatment which before was unsought through fear of financial embarrassment . We hope that the current attack on the killer diseases - heart , cancer and stroke through ...
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... believe this , and I believe , too , that these hearings will serve to speed the day when preventive medicine will be practiced more than it is preached to the end that all Americans will not only live longer but enjoy longevity ...
... believe this , and I believe , too , that these hearings will serve to speed the day when preventive medicine will be practiced more than it is preached to the end that all Americans will not only live longer but enjoy longevity ...
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... believe that this can be done and what is needed , of course , is to obtain more informa- tion , by research , on ways and means of doing this . We are engaged in many centers in a collection of data to develop certain patterns in which ...
... believe that this can be done and what is needed , of course , is to obtain more informa- tion , by research , on ways and means of doing this . We are engaged in many centers in a collection of data to develop certain patterns in which ...
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... believe that Maryland's rates of incidence are any greater or any less than the rest of the country . More information is needed as to the real extent of chronic illnesses . Where tests have been utilized for glaucoma and for diabetes ...
... believe that Maryland's rates of incidence are any greater or any less than the rest of the country . More information is needed as to the real extent of chronic illnesses . Where tests have been utilized for glaucoma and for diabetes ...
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... believe most other State health agencies have . As far as chronic illness is concerned , this to me is the only real ap- plication of specific preventive measures that can be used in control of chronic disease . I feel that State and ...
... believe most other State health agencies have . As far as chronic illness is concerned , this to me is the only real ap- plication of specific preventive measures that can be used in control of chronic disease . I feel that State and ...
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Page 32 - 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 146 - 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 v - 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 353 - University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80220 Western Orthopedic Association William H.
Page 351 - Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians and the American Hospital Association.
Page 480 - April 17, I am forwarding herewith the response to the list of questions specifically directed to the Golden 65 program. Also enclosed is a revision of the first page of our response to the general questionnaire for Golden 65 previously...
Page 486 - Chairman, Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly, Special Committee on Aging, US Senate, Washington, DC DEAR SENATOB MCNAMABA: The attached information is submitted in response to your letter of March 10 and that of Mr.
Page 486 - If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, DREW C.
Page 233 - I would like to say that I am very pleased to be here to speak on a subject that is of some interest to us in the field of public health.
Page 375 - Wilkerson, HLC and Krall. LP : Diabetes in a New England town, JAMA 135, 209-16, 1947.