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Page 14 - Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man, including water purification, sewage treatment, and pollution of lakes and streams.
Page 14 - The National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness and the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases were established November 22.
Page 1 - ... 1. The causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, prevention of, and rehabilitation relating to the physical and mental diseases and other killing and crippling impairments of mankind ; 2. The origin, nature, and solution of health problems not identifiable in terms of disease entities ; 3.
Page 41 - What you need at the outset is a high degree of uncertainty; otherwise it isn't likely to be an important problem. You start with an incomplete roster of facts, characterized by their ambiguity; often the problem consists of discovering the connections between unrelated pieces of information. You must plan experiments on the basis of probability, even bare possibility, rather than certainty. If an experiment turns out precisely as predicted, this can be very nice, but it is only a great event if...
Page 34 - Diseases, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Page 16 - Congress recently established the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The Commission...
Page 63 - Health and for each of the research institutes (other than the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute...
Page 5 - US National Office of Vital Statistics: Vital Statistics of the United States: 1950, 1959.
Page 17 - Registry; the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; the Food and Drug Administration; the Indian Health Service; the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH); and the PHS regional offices.
Page 14 - June 24, 1948— The National Dental Research Act authorized the National Institute of Dental Research to conduct, assist, and foster dental research; provide training; and cooperate with the States in the prevention and control of dental diseases.