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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... experience today . What are your comments , Senator Williams ? Senator WILLIAMS . I only went through part of the tests , Senator Neuberger , the glaucoma test , and I will say right now I am a little bleary from the drops that are ...
... experience today . What are your comments , Senator Williams ? Senator WILLIAMS . I only went through part of the tests , Senator Neuberger , the glaucoma test , and I will say right now I am a little bleary from the drops that are ...
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... experience that the elderly often fear ill health when they don't have it . In the declining years and declin- ing physical vigor , they imagine all kinds of ailments they don't have , and they don't have the money to go to hospitals ...
... experience that the elderly often fear ill health when they don't have it . In the declining years and declin- ing physical vigor , they imagine all kinds of ailments they don't have , and they don't have the money to go to hospitals ...
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... experience with modern health testing methods . I will repeat again for those who have just come in that this is the Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging . Let me emphasize that this ...
... experience with modern health testing methods . I will repeat again for those who have just come in that this is the Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging . Let me emphasize that this ...
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... experience of anyone working in a large gen- eral hospital to see the late stages of disease which , if discovered earlier , might have been controlled so as to prolong productive life . Death and chronic debilitating illness are always ...
... experience of anyone working in a large gen- eral hospital to see the late stages of disease which , if discovered earlier , might have been controlled so as to prolong productive life . Death and chronic debilitating illness are always ...
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... experience and the recognized need for specialized services to the aging in the Greater St. Louis area culmi- nated in 1961 in the establishment of a separate department of aging in the Catholic Charities organizational structure . In ...
... experience and the recognized need for specialized services to the aging in the Greater St. Louis area culmi- nated in 1961 in the establishment of a separate department of aging in the Catholic Charities organizational structure . In ...
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abnormal age groups Association August 18 August 23 autoanalyzer automated cervical cancer Chairman chest X-ray chronic disease chronic illness clinical Committee on Aging cost County D.C. DEAR SENATOR Dean DEAR SENATOR NEUBERGER Department of Health Department of Public diabetes diagnosis director disability doctor early detection effective Elderly electrocardiogram equipment evaluation followup glaucoma gram health department health screening methods health screening programs hearing heart disease hospital individual instrument interest KCRL laboratory large numbers letter of August Medical Center medical profession ment multiphasic health screening multiphasic screening program organization patient percent personnel persons physical examination physician population predictive medicine preventive medicine problem Public Health Service question referred screening procedures screening tests Senator MAURINE September September 14 Sincerely specific Subcommittee on Health symptoms syphilis techniques thermography tion tonometry treatment tuberculosis U.S. Senate University Washington
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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.).
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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.