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Page 18 - Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963 and the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 (77 Stat.
Page 18 - States for health care of expectant mothers who have, or are likely to have, conditions associated with childbearing which may lead to mental retardation; funds for research to improve maternal and child health and crippled children's services; and grants to the States to assist in developing plans for comprehensive State and community programs to combat mental retardation. (PL 88156, 77 Stat. L. 273.) October 31, 1963 — A companion measure to Public Law 88-156 was the Mental Retardation Facilities...
Page 68 - American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Association for Cancer Research: American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists; American...
Page 31 - Congress by joint resolution of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 617), has authorized and requested the President of the United States to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 as Child Health Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D.
Page 57 - ... assist and foster such researches and other activities by public and private agencies, and promote the coordination of all such researches and activities and the useful application of their results...
Page 11 - State or possession, any virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, or analogous product, or arsphenamine or its derivatives (or any other trivalent organic arsenic compound), applicable to the prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases or injuries of man...
Page 24 - eminence in the application of science to the public welfare" (1962), the Rockefeller Public Service Award for Science, Technology, or Engineering (1964), and the Presidential Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award (1966). On retiring as NIH Director (Aug.
Page 19 - The National Cancer Act of 1971 enlarged the authorities of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health in order to advance the national effort against cancer.
Page 67 - The final report of the study group on Mission and Organization of the Public Health Service...
Page 12 - ... Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, the latter absorbing the Experimental Biology and Medicine Institute. The act also gave the Surgeon General authority to establish new institutes.

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