INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON REORGANIZATION AND
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

U.S. Congress. Senate.

OF THE

→COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

45783

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH STUDY

(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 347, 85TH CONG., S. RES. 42, AND
S. RES. 255, 86TH CONG.)

JULY 9 AND 16, 1959

PART I

(INCLUDES TRANSCRIPT OF CONFERENCES IN EUROPE,
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1958)

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Letter from Paul Dudley White, M.D., and joint report of the Research
and Social Committees, International Society of Cardiology, sessions in
Brussels, September 1958..

Letter from Ancel Keys, Ph. D., director, Laboratory of Physiological

Hygiene, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis..

Memorandum on subcommittee's approach in its study of international

health_____

Statement by Albert Sabin, M.D., on medical and hygienic problems in
the development of the tropics before the Division of Medical Sciences,
National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council..

Letter from Jonas Salk, M.D., director, Virus Research Laboratory, De-

partment of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh..-.

Chronology of official policy statements on increased international scientific

cooperation for health..

Article, "Major Issues of Aging," by Edward L. Bortz, M.D., and Walter
M. Bortz II, M.D., in “G.P.," July 1959..

Statement by George N. Papanicolaou, M.D., on international work in

cytology.

Supplementary statement by Margaret A. Mead, Ph. D., on the use now

being made of the human and behavioral sciences in Government

operations

'Statement by William Lennox, M.D., on epilepsy research..

Statement by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey on information to be printed

in appendix volume..

The Toll of Disease and Accidents in the United States, chart prepared by

the National Health Education Committee__

Text of Senate Resolution 347, 85th Congress, authorizing study of inter-

national health...

-Statement by James A. Shannon, M.D., on National Institutes of Health

and international medical research_

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Chart on principal agencies of the U.S. Government involved in medical

research

Statement by Vladimir K. Zworykin, Ph. D., of the Rockefeller Institute

of Medical Research on the Medical Engineering Research Center, a

proposal...

Statement by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey on the importance of ex-

panded Federal agency activity in the field of medical electronics, with

appended articles.

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143

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Chart-Some highlights on international activities of a medical or health-

related nature including biomedical research by agencies of the U.S. Gov-

ernment.
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APPENDIX

TRANSCRIPT OF CONFERENCES IN EUROPE DURING

OFFICIAL REVIEW, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1958, WITH

TEXTS OF RELATED CORRESPONDENCE AND MEMO-

RANDUMS

Paris, France:

1. Memorandum on medical research in France, prepared by Prof. L.

Bugnard, Director, National Institute of Hygiene...--

2. Memorandum on related phases of medical research in France,

prepared by Prof. J. Coulomb, Director, National Center for

Scientific Research

3. Work of Council of International Organizations for Medical

Sciences:

A. Memorandum from Dr. J. F. Delafresnaye, executive

secretary, CIOMS..

B. International medical organizations..

4. Verbatim transcript of conference with Dr. M. W. Woerdeman,

Chairman, Excerpta Medica Foundation, and E. van Tongeren,

Director of the Foundation, together with subsequent corre-

spondence__-

5. Transcripts of conferences in French Government laboratories_

A. Dr. A. Minkowski, Neo-Natal Biological Research Center,

Maternite Beaudalocque.

B. Prof. George S. Schapira, Laboratory of Biochemical Medi-

cal Research, Hospital of Sick Children..

6. Visits with other French scientists__.

7. Memorandums from scientists of the Pasteur Institute__

A. "Today's scientific research at the Pasteur Institute,'

memorandum presented by Prof. Jacques Trefouel,

Director of the Pasteur Institute...

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B. Memorandum on proposed European Institute for Molecu-

lar Biology, conveyed by Dr. A. Lwoff..

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Geneva, Switzerland-Conference with WHO officials_-__-

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Brussels, Belgium:

Views on American support of medical and especially cancer research in

Europe from H. J. Tagnon, M.D., Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels__

Stockholm, Sweden:

Reports on the Karolinska Institute:

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A. Biochemical Department of the Nobel Medical Institute____

B. Department of Medical Cell Research and Genetics of

the Nobel Medical Institute..

A. Prof. Hugo Theorell, Bio-Chemical Department, Karolinska

Institute..

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B. Prof. T. Caspersson, Department of Medical Cell Research,

Karolinska Institute..

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