NASA Funding: Evaluating the Claims of Space-based Medical Research : Hearing Before the Task Force on Defense, Foreign Policy, and Space of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, April 28, 1992, Volum 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 172 pàgines |
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Pàgina 39 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Pàgina 7 - The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives from cancer, and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy, and service.
Pàgina 53 - Medicine, chartered by Congress in 1863 to advise the government on matters of science and technology.
Pàgina 7 - Cancer? Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells.
Pàgina 40 - ... We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation which loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to forward motion is to ensure its continuance.
Pàgina 40 - ... Space is indifferent to what we do; it has no feeling, no design, no interest in whether we grapple with it or not. But we cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.
Pàgina 131 - Nation's capability to prevent disease; (3) expand the knowledge base in medical and associated sciences in order to enhance the Nation's economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research...
Pàgina 1 - Close contact is also maintained with the National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the...
Pàgina 120 - In the largest and most rigorous trial to date, cosponsored by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), the short- and long-term safety and efficacy of acupuncture for the pain of osteoarthrilis are being evaluated.
Pàgina 144 - Validation of the advantages of outpatient breast biopsies has made possible a two-stage breast cancer procedure that provides an alternative for more than 490,000 women annually who would otherwise suffer the anguish and uncertainty of combined diagnosis and treatment under general anesthesia. A total of $10.6 million of the NCI National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project was expended from 1 97 1 to 1 986 to perfect this procedure.