Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1969: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Part 5

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Page 569 - Council, shall — (a) conduct, assist, and foster researches, investigations, experiments, and studies relating to the cause, prevention, and methods of diagnosis and treatment of cancer...
Page 436 - Chairman of the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and such others as the President may from time to time determine.
Page 35 - Sciences, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institute of Dental Research.
Page 190 - ... (b) to afford to the medical profession and the medical institutions of the Nation, through such cooperative arrangements, the opportunity of making available to their patients the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases...
Page 508 - Commission shall have the sole power to determine whether or not and where a patent application shall be filed, and to determine the disposition of the title to and rights under any application or patent that may result.
Page 212 - Laboratory of Molecular Diseases, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Page 982 - June 30, 1967, and the two succeeding fiscal years, an aggregate of not to exceed .$280,000,000 for making grants-in-aid for the construction of facilities for research, or research and related purposes, in the sciences related to health ; and any sums appropriated pursuant to this section shall remain available until expended.
Page 28 - Progress in medicine depends largely on the cautious extension to man of a body of carefully integrated knowledge derived from programs of basic and developmental research in the laboratory. Extension to man is itself an investigative process that must meet the same meticulous scientific standards that obtain in the laboratory, and the extension can appropriately be started only when the total body of knowledge has reached a certain point. It is clear that this point has been reached in the case...
Page 29 - ... only a relatively small number of careful investigations involving cardiac transplantation need be done at this time. Therefore, the Board strongly urges that institutions, even though well-equipped from the standpoint of surgical expertise and facilities but without specific capabilities to conduct the whole range of scientific observations involved in the total study, resist the temptation to approve the performance of the surgical procedure until there has been an opportunity for the total...
Page 28 - ... of total cardiac replacement is so formidable, and uncertainties about the duration of life after replacement are so great, that physicians may be expected to be conservative about recommending it for an individual patient.