The controversy over Laetrile is nearly at an end, the worthlessness of the drug having been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. But the Laetrile ex...
Marital status has been associated with a wide variety of health indices and health practices. To better understand the relation of marital status to ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has relied to a great degree on epidemiologic studies in the regulation of oral contraceptives (OC). These...
Epidemiologic studies of medically and environmentally exposed populations have been central to establishing ionizing radiation as a cause of malignan...
A physician survey was conducted in 13 counties surrounding Albany and Syracuse, N.Y., to determine estrogen prescribing patterns for treatment of pro...
Nitrite has been used for centuries to preserve, color, and flavor meat. Today, about 10 billion pounds of cured meat products are produced annually, ...
The increasing use of nonnutritive sweeteners and the widely publicized 1969 ban on cyclamate led to additional investigations in rodents of the carci...
The number of employed registered nurses (RNs) in the U.S. stood at an all-time high of 1.3 million in 1980. This paper, using life table techniques, ...
The relationship between measures of social desirability and various preventive health behaviors was examined directly for 235 females and 171 males f...
The long downward trend in the practice of breast feeding was reversed during the 1972-73 period. Data from the National Survey of Family Growth condu...
The control of stress and violent behavior is 1 of the 15 priority areas addressed in the Public Health Service's Objectives for the Nation. The Natio...
The National Cancer Institute since 1955 has been charged with responsibility for discovering new anti-cancer agents and bringing them to clinical tri...
During a 7-year period ending June 30, 1980, the annual incidence of all Haemophilus influenzae type b disease among Navajo children less than 5 years...
In a retrospective study, 100 randomly selected, high utilizers of ambulatory care services in 1972 were followed for a 6-year period, 1973-78. The 22...
ObjectiveWe describe the decision-making process used by emergency medical services (EMS) providers in order to understand how: 1) injured patients ar...
Borrelia miyamotoi, transmitted by Ixodes spp. ticks, was recognized as an agent of hard tick relapsing fever in the United States in 2013. Nine state...
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