Juab County has hung out the “Help Wanted” sign – for doctors. Currently, in the whole county, there are only three doctors two of them moving toward semi-retirement. A survey a year ago by the State Divsion of Health projected that Nephi and surrounding towns could support four full-time physicians. With the growth pattern and… Continue reading ‘HeIp Wanted’ in Juab
Category: Health
State Hospital Investigation
The Utah State Hospital has been the center of a smouldering Controversy for several months. Now the Utah Legislative Social Services Interim Study Commit- tee has passed a motion asking the attorney general to in- vestigate possible mallcasance and misappropriation of Iunds at the Provo institution. Dr. Roger S. Kiger. superinten- dent, quickly welcomed the… Continue reading State Hospital Investigation
Heimlich Maneuver Saves Many Lives
By N. LA VERL CHRISTENSEN Sclpps League Newspapers What would you do if you suddenly realized a person in your presence was choking on a piece of food or other object and couldn’t breathe? Choking can cause death in just four minutes. Indeed. it claims an es- timated 4,000 fatalities in America each year. Just… Continue reading Heimlich Maneuver Saves Many Lives
Clark’s Legacy in Heart Program
How ever long the road to practical use of artificial hearts may be, history will remember Dr. Barney B. Clark as a pioneer in opening a new frontier in medical science. Clark, 62-year-old respected Seattle area dentist and alumnus of Brigham Young University at Provo. Utah, became the first human being to receive a permanent… Continue reading Clark’s Legacy in Heart Program
Famous False Teeth Not Wood
George Washington had some rather famous false teeth, made in a day when prosthodontia still was in its early stages of development. But the dentures were not made of wood as many have believed. “No such thing,” says the librarian at Mount Vernon, the first presidents historic home on the Potomac. “I just don’t know… Continue reading Famous False Teeth Not Wood
A Good Way to Help the Elderly
Congress should act quickly to correct a glaring injustice in the Medicare and Medicaid programs where bureaucratic process has frustrated purpose. Unless things have changed greatly in recent weeks, the intent of Medicare and Medicaid is to provide high-quality health care to the needy and the elderly at the least possible cost to the taxpayers.… Continue reading A Good Way to Help the Elderly
Vaccine date remembered
“Salk Anti-Polio Vaccine Declared Safe, Effective” That message, proclaimed by newspaper headlines 25 years ago this month, announced one of the landmark breakthroughs in medical history. “The vaccine works.” Those were the first words spoken April 12, 1955 at Ann Arbor, Mich., where the results of a scientific evaluation of mass testing among more than… Continue reading Vaccine date remembered