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January, 1949 BULLETIN BOARD 45 American Heart Association Dr. Rustin Mcintosh, director of the Pediatric Service of the Presbyterian Hospital in New York, has been elected 1949 chairman of the American Council on Rheumatic Fever of the American Heart Association. Dr. Mcintosh also is Carpentier Professor of Pediatrics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Mr. Lawrence Linck of Chicago was elected vice chairman. The American Council on Rheumatic Fever was created in 1944 to correlate the interests of various voluntary health organizations concerned with rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease and to coordinate these efforts with similar activities in the government field. Institute of Life Insurance The year 1948 may prove an important one in the history of medical science's long and arduous investigation of heart disease, according to a year-end summary issued by the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund. Financial support for heart disease research leached a new high during the year, and as 1949 begins, more trained scientists are at work in the field and more research is in progress than probably ever before. Although heart disease kills more men and women than any other disease, scientists had little financial support for their research in the field until three years ago. In 1945, the life insurance companies of the United States and Canada recognized the lack of research and set up the first private agency devoted entirely to research in the heart field. Each year since then the life insurance companies have contributed approximately $600,000 to hospitals, universities and individual students. The total so far amounts to $1,900,000. During 1948, the funds supplied by the life insurance companies began to be supplemented by funds from two other sources, the American Heart Association, supported by public contributions, and the U. S. Public Health Service, supported by government funds authorized by the new National Heart Act. When the programs of the Association and the Health Service are in full swing, the total money available annually from these two sources and from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund will exceed two million dollars, not counting additional millions to be spent in education, treatment, and other non-research activities. Heart disease research during 1949, experts think, will continue to center around the three most serious heart diseases or heart "conditions" — rheumatic fever, arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, and hypertension, or high blood pressure. Study will . also be continued on how the body's heart and artery cells work and how the blood flows through the body as a whole and through various organs. Research was continued during 1948 on the effect of the "rice diet" in the treatment of high blood pressure, particularly at Duke University. Opinion still differs as to the value of this treatment, but the results are such as to require further study. The nature of heart disease, the Life Insurance Medical Fund declares, discourages any hope of some new and startling cure or method of prevention in the next few years. But medical knowledge about the disease and about how the entire cardiovascular system functions, the Fund says, is increasing at a dramatic rate. Postgraduate Course in Diseases of the Chest The Council on Postgraduate Medical Education of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Laennec Society of Philadelphia announce a Postgraduate Course in Diseases of the Chest to be held at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 28 through March 5, 1949. This course will emphasize the recent developments in all aspects of diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest. The course is open to all physicians, although the number of registrants will be limited. Applications will be accepted in the order in which they are received. The tuition fee is $50.00. Application may be made through the Executive Offices of the American College of Chest Physicians, 500 North Dearborn Street, Chicago 10, Illinois. American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inc. The next written examination and review of case histories (Part I) for all candidates will be held in various cities of the United States and Canada on Friday, February 4, 1949. Arrangements will be made so far as is possible for candidates to take the Part I examination (written paper and submission of case records) at places convenient to them. Candidates who successfully complete the Part I examination proceed automatically to the Part II examination, to be held May 8 to 14 inclusive, 1949, at the Hotel Shoreland, Chicago, Illinois. Notice of the exact time and place of the Part I and Part II examinations will be sent all candidates well in advance of the examination date. Closing date for leapplications for admission to the Part II examinations will be April 1, 1949. New Bulletins are now available for distribution upon application and give details of all changes in Board requirements and regulations made at the annual meeting of the Board held in Washington, d. C., May 16 to May 22, 1948. These relate both to candidates and to hospitals conducting residency services for training. Application forms and Bulletins are sent upon request made to American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inc., 1015 Highland Building, Pittsburgh 6, Pennsylvania. American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association A "healthy and virile pharmaceutical industry in the United States" is "constantly reducing costs of medication to the public," according to Dr. Theodore G. Klumpp, president of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. "We have demonstrated," he said, "that this industry can stand on its own feet and produce not only our nation's requirements but the world's requirements of important drugs without governmental help or subsidy." Finally, Dr. Klumpp reviewed the current application of "socialized medicine" in Great Britain. "We have a grave responsibility to our public," he concluded, "to do everything we can to resist the grafting of the same socialistic or communistic philosophy, if you will, into the sturdy trunk of our American democracy." (BULLETIN BOARD CONTINUED ON PAGE 48)
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
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Date | 1949 |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
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Full Text | January, 1949 BULLETIN BOARD 45 American Heart Association Dr. Rustin Mcintosh, director of the Pediatric Service of the Presbyterian Hospital in New York, has been elected 1949 chairman of the American Council on Rheumatic Fever of the American Heart Association. Dr. Mcintosh also is Carpentier Professor of Pediatrics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Mr. Lawrence Linck of Chicago was elected vice chairman. The American Council on Rheumatic Fever was created in 1944 to correlate the interests of various voluntary health organizations concerned with rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease and to coordinate these efforts with similar activities in the government field. Institute of Life Insurance The year 1948 may prove an important one in the history of medical science's long and arduous investigation of heart disease, according to a year-end summary issued by the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund. Financial support for heart disease research leached a new high during the year, and as 1949 begins, more trained scientists are at work in the field and more research is in progress than probably ever before. Although heart disease kills more men and women than any other disease, scientists had little financial support for their research in the field until three years ago. In 1945, the life insurance companies of the United States and Canada recognized the lack of research and set up the first private agency devoted entirely to research in the heart field. Each year since then the life insurance companies have contributed approximately $600,000 to hospitals, universities and individual students. The total so far amounts to $1,900,000. During 1948, the funds supplied by the life insurance companies began to be supplemented by funds from two other sources, the American Heart Association, supported by public contributions, and the U. S. Public Health Service, supported by government funds authorized by the new National Heart Act. When the programs of the Association and the Health Service are in full swing, the total money available annually from these two sources and from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund will exceed two million dollars, not counting additional millions to be spent in education, treatment, and other non-research activities. Heart disease research during 1949, experts think, will continue to center around the three most serious heart diseases or heart "conditions" — rheumatic fever, arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, and hypertension, or high blood pressure. Study will . also be continued on how the body's heart and artery cells work and how the blood flows through the body as a whole and through various organs. Research was continued during 1948 on the effect of the "rice diet" in the treatment of high blood pressure, particularly at Duke University. Opinion still differs as to the value of this treatment, but the results are such as to require further study. The nature of heart disease, the Life Insurance Medical Fund declares, discourages any hope of some new and startling cure or method of prevention in the next few years. But medical knowledge about the disease and about how the entire cardiovascular system functions, the Fund says, is increasing at a dramatic rate. Postgraduate Course in Diseases of the Chest The Council on Postgraduate Medical Education of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Laennec Society of Philadelphia announce a Postgraduate Course in Diseases of the Chest to be held at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 28 through March 5, 1949. This course will emphasize the recent developments in all aspects of diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest. The course is open to all physicians, although the number of registrants will be limited. Applications will be accepted in the order in which they are received. The tuition fee is $50.00. Application may be made through the Executive Offices of the American College of Chest Physicians, 500 North Dearborn Street, Chicago 10, Illinois. American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inc. The next written examination and review of case histories (Part I) for all candidates will be held in various cities of the United States and Canada on Friday, February 4, 1949. Arrangements will be made so far as is possible for candidates to take the Part I examination (written paper and submission of case records) at places convenient to them. Candidates who successfully complete the Part I examination proceed automatically to the Part II examination, to be held May 8 to 14 inclusive, 1949, at the Hotel Shoreland, Chicago, Illinois. Notice of the exact time and place of the Part I and Part II examinations will be sent all candidates well in advance of the examination date. Closing date for leapplications for admission to the Part II examinations will be April 1, 1949. New Bulletins are now available for distribution upon application and give details of all changes in Board requirements and regulations made at the annual meeting of the Board held in Washington, d. C., May 16 to May 22, 1948. These relate both to candidates and to hospitals conducting residency services for training. Application forms and Bulletins are sent upon request made to American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inc., 1015 Highland Building, Pittsburgh 6, Pennsylvania. American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association A "healthy and virile pharmaceutical industry in the United States" is "constantly reducing costs of medication to the public" according to Dr. Theodore G. Klumpp, president of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. "We have demonstrated" he said, "that this industry can stand on its own feet and produce not only our nation's requirements but the world's requirements of important drugs without governmental help or subsidy." Finally, Dr. Klumpp reviewed the current application of "socialized medicine" in Great Britain. "We have a grave responsibility to our public" he concluded, "to do everything we can to resist the grafting of the same socialistic or communistic philosophy, if you will, into the sturdy trunk of our American democracy." (BULLETIN BOARD CONTINUED ON PAGE 48) |
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