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hospital
hospital institution for the care of the sick, maintained by private endowment or public funds or both. General hospitals minister to all types of illness, while special hospitals are concerned with only one disease or group of diseases. Many hospitals are maintained solely for the treatment of... Read more |
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United Nations Childrens Fund
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), an affiliated agency of the United Nations. It was established in 1946 as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. UNICEF is concerned with assisting children and adolescents throughout the world, particularly in devastated areas and... Read more |
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Oliver Wolf Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks 1933-, British neurologist and author, b. London, educated at Oxford. In 1960 he moved to the United States, where he continued his medical training. He began an association with Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City in 1965, later becoming a professor of neurology... Read more |
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mesonephros
mesonephros In the development of an amniote embryo, the part of each kidney that at first is concerned with excretion. In later development that role is assumed by the metanephros, the mesonephros degenerating in females and in males becoming connected to the testes and associated with... Read more |
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public health
public health field of medicine and hygiene dealing with the prevention of disease and the promotion of health by government agencies. In the United States, public health authorities are engaged in many activities, including inspection of persons and goods entering the country to determine that... Read more |
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Government National Mortgage Association
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION The Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), also known as Ginnie Mae, is a corporation wholly owned by the federal government. Created by the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 825 Stat. 491, GNMA is designed to support the federal... Read more |
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Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 Antonio F. Perez While Congress has constitutional authority over the spending of funds, the president as the nation's chief executive has independent foreign-affairs power. What happens when these two powers intersect? In the aftermath of World War II, in... Read more |
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Nurse practitioners
NURSE PRACTITIONER Health care demands are often the driving force behind the emergence of new and modified positions within the field. In the 1960s the United States began to experience a significant reduction in the number of physicians. Coupled with increasing patient acuity (increasingly... Read more |
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ED leaders urge passage of emergency medical act.
...passage of emergency medical act...physicians and nurses have urged...Emergency Nurses Association added their voices and concern. "We are...some form of funding for mandated...care are the key issues at...due to the lack of] funding for uninsured...and ... |
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GHA reports: "despite modest gains, Georgia's health care workforce shortage...
...qualified nurses and allied...Hospital Association (GHA) workforce...Workforce Shortage," is the...the ongoing shortage of health...Some of the key findings...care and emergency departments...workforce shortages have occurred...about this shortage is that...impeded y a ... |