America 1970-1979: Medicine and Health Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 72 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1970-1979.
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America 1970-1979: Medicine and Health Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 72 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1970-1979.
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On 21 September 1970 two physicians, Werner A. Bleyer and Robert T. Brekenridge, advised mothers to avoid taking aspirin in the latter stages of pregnancy to avoid developing bleeding problems in their babies.

Health, Education, and Welfare secretary Joseph A. Califano attacked the tobacco industry on 11 January 1978 with his statement that cigarette smoking is "slow-motion suicide." But President Jimmy Carter undercut Califano's anti-smoking campaign during his visit to North Carolina by pledging government support of efforts to make cigarettes "even safer than they are."

Dr. Morris E. Chafetz, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, reported on 18 February 1972 that alcoholism was the nation's greatest drug problem, with as many as nine million Americans affected.

On 23 July 1970 U.S. breakfast cereals came under fire from hunger consultant Robert Burnett Choate, Jr., who testified before a Senate committee that forty of the top sixty dry cereals...

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