 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce - Medical - 2005 - 80 pages
...that our basic authority comes from the PHS Act, Section 301, which states that the Secretary shall conduct in the service and "encourage, cooperate with,...and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairment of man." And I think what the committee is doing is to reinforce this fundamental authority.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce - Medical - 2006 - 96 pages
...Service Act authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use the Public Health Service to "encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance...physical and mental diseases and impairments of man ... ." US population. Since 1950, the age-adjusted death rate for the total population declined by... | |
 | Mildred Kaufman - Health - 2007 - 650 pages
...Department of Agriculture. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was authorized to study the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases of man. A nutrition coordinating office was set up to oversee research at the National Institutes of... | |
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The Surgeon General shall conduct in the 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,... 
