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Organized Labor's charges that medical practitioners undertake needless surgery, prolong hospitalization, engage in monopolistic practices, and overcharge, as well as organized labor's contention that it has the right to exert some types of controls over medicine, have brought the American Labor Health Association and the American Medical Association into direct opposition for debate. A message from the President of the United States, read by his brother, Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, informed delegates of 88 countries attending the Tenth Anniversary meeting of the World Health Organization that the United States is prepared to contribute substantially to a world wide attack on major illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Every single major drug group developed since the Russian Revolution (antidiabetics, vitamins, sulfa drugs, antibiotics, hormones, antihypertensives, and mental health drugs) have been discovered by the West, John T. Connor, President of Merck & Co., Inc., pointed out in a recent address to the Manufacturing Chemist's Association. The Soviet "found that it was far less costly to pirate Western drugs . . . " Duplication of equipment, needless services, and prolonged convalescence are on their way out as self-care is being introduced in hospitals. Because of the seriousness of antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus infections in hospitals around the world, the Joint Committee on Accreditation of Hospitals is being asked to consider the establishment of a Committee on Infections as a major factor in the accreditation of a hospital. See page 432. Because an accident involving a nuclear reactor or radioactive materials, either in use or in shipment, while highly unlikely, could be hazardous to the public, Atomic Energy Commission radiological personnel are held in readiness in all areas of the United States to protect the public in the event of such incidents. The health professions are becoming instruments of foreign policy as Russia with 2,750,000 members of these professions is preparing to export them to needy countries as a means of promising longer life to many peoples. The United States with its enlarged vision in world health has proposed that the World Health Organization undertake a special study to discover more effective ways of fostering medical research on an international basis. The primary purpose of WHO is to make techniques and resources in the health field available to all those who desperately need them for their own benefit and for the ultimate benefit of all mankind. VOL. 19, NO. 7, JULY, 1958/ PRACTICAL PHARMACY EDITION
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Organized Labor's charges that medical practitioners undertake needless surgery, prolong hospitalization, engage in monopolistic practices, and overcharge, as well as organized labor's contention that it has the right to exert some types of controls over medicine, have brought the American Labor Health Association and the American Medical Association into direct opposition for debate. A message from the President of the United States, read by his brother, Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, informed delegates of 88 countries attending the Tenth Anniversary meeting of the World Health Organization that the United States is prepared to contribute substantially to a world wide attack on major illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Every single major drug group developed since the Russian Revolution (antidiabetics, vitamins, sulfa drugs, antibiotics, hormones, antihypertensives, and mental health drugs) have been discovered by the West, John T. Connor, President of Merck & Co., Inc., pointed out in a recent address to the Manufacturing Chemist's Association. The Soviet "found that it was far less costly to pirate Western drugs . . . " Duplication of equipment, needless services, and prolonged convalescence are on their way out as self-care is being introduced in hospitals. Because of the seriousness of antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus infections in hospitals around the world, the Joint Committee on Accreditation of Hospitals is being asked to consider the establishment of a Committee on Infections as a major factor in the accreditation of a hospital. See page 432. Because an accident involving a nuclear reactor or radioactive materials, either in use or in shipment, while highly unlikely, could be hazardous to the public, Atomic Energy Commission radiological personnel are held in readiness in all areas of the United States to protect the public in the event of such incidents. The health professions are becoming instruments of foreign policy as Russia with 2,750,000 members of these professions is preparing to export them to needy countries as a means of promising longer life to many peoples. The United States with its enlarged vision in world health has proposed that the World Health Organization undertake a special study to discover more effective ways of fostering medical research on an international basis. The primary purpose of WHO is to make techniques and resources in the health field available to all those who desperately need them for their own benefit and for the ultimate benefit of all mankind. VOL. 19, NO. 7, JULY, 1958/ PRACTICAL PHARMACY EDITION
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