NIH Budget Cuts Threaten Dark Ages of Medical Science
Government scientists including NIH officials warn 5 to 10 percent cuts in health research slow progress and may endanger a generation of investigators. Budget reductions have cost hundreds of NIH jobs and halted planned clinical programs, from leukemia care to allergy research, with nurses in short supply at the NIH clinical center.
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Washington
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Robert W. Berliner
Berliner
Leventhal
Nixon
Senate Appropriations Committee
Clinical Center
Edward S. Henderson
Mil’s
Moon
Nursing Home Push on Payments in Kansas
The Kansas Nursing Home Association asks the Legislature to bar placing medically needy patients in unlicensed homes. They accuse the State Department of Social Welfare of using unlicensed facilities to save money, noting licensed homes lose patients due to low per diem payments.
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Harold Willis
Dodge City
Association
State Department of Health
M. W. Howard
Howard
Department of Social Welfare
Kansas
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Kansas Nursing Home Association
Damn the Pill feminist Edith Summerskill voices health fears
Britain's leading feminist and physician Edith Summerskill, a life peer in the House of Lords, questions the Pill's safety and medical effects. She argues premarital sex pressures and Virgin ideals persist, and cites recent deaths linked to the drug while urging proof of 100 percent safety. Summerskill, 68, longtime Labour MP and health advocate, helped found the Socialist Medical Association and advance national health services.
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London
Baroness Summerskill
House of Lords
Britain
Lords of the Realm
Lords
Harold
Wilson
Edith Summerskill
West Fulham
National Insurance
Socialist Medical Association
Breakfast habits through the ages and modern diet concerns
Dieticians fault modern breakfast for low energy, arguing older meals supplied one quarter of daily calories and lasting fuel. Don Vivine's Restaurant advertises Western fare and carry-out at 625 N Santa Fe, offering Sophisticated Chicken and hearty sandwiches with sides, open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
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Don Divine
N. Santa FE
Frontier seeks $15 million subsidy with Senate backing
Frontier Airlines seeks a $15 million government subsidy, more than double its current $7.25 million, warning it may abandon service to smaller western communities if support ends. The appeal to the Civil Aeronautics Board and Sen. Magnuson is endorsed by 15 senators from eight western states, except Utah’s Wallace F. Bennett.
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Washington
Frontier Airlines
Frontier
Midwest
Far West
Civil Aeronautics Board
Warsten G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Senate Commerce Committee
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Wallace F. Bennett
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E. Main
Ans Tower
S. Central
Meepwear
Her Majesty
Cutler
Ona
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Thayer, Kansas
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