ERIC Number: ED273493
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Nov
Pages: 85
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Momentum toward Health.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst. (DHHS/NIH), Bethesda, MD. Div. of Lung Diseases.
Important new medical findings and advances in heart, lung, and blood research with goals of encouraging practical applications are presented in this supplement to the 12th report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council. The findings are the result of a 10-year research program directed to the highest identified priorities in preventing and controlling heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases. The collection of articles present the implications of recent advances for individuals and public health. These articles include: (1) from theory to practice--the biomedical research spectrum; (2) pathways to discovery (providing examples of serendipitous scientific breakthroughs); (3) function and failure--visualizing heart, lung, and blood disease; (4) era of technology (reviewing major advances in diagnostic techniques); (5) lifesavers--advances in medical treatment; (6) CPR--reviving the heart after cardiac arrest; (7) improving the outlook for children (8) health education/risk reduction--helping healthy children stay healthy; (9) prevention--Farmingham's legacy; (10) judging the news (offering guidelines for assessing media's portrayal of scientific breakthroughs); (11) looking ahead--heart, lung, and blood medicine in the year 2000; (12) research--how is it supported?; and (13) heart, lung, and blood disease--health and economic consequences. (ML)
Publication Type: Reports - General
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst. (DHHS/NIH), Bethesda, MD. Div. of Lung Diseases.
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