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Institutes Of Health In April: In 1968 the Public Health Service was reorganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon general of the Public Health Service.
Under the reorganization the Public Health Service was enlarged to include the Food and Drug Administration; a new agency, the Health Services and Mental Health Administration; and the National Institutes of Health, which itself was enlarged to include the Bureau of Health Manpower and the National Library of Medicine.
Rh,,(D) Immune Globulin (Human), which is sold under the trade name RhoGAM, was jointly developed by Vincent J. Freda and John G. German, both of Presbyterian Hospital and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and William Pollack of Ortho Research Foundation. It has been found to be almost 100% effective in clinical trials and was approved for safety and efficacy by the Division of Biologic Standards of the U.S. National Institutes of Health in April 1968. The vaccine became available to hospitals in June 1968. Physicians making use of it, however, were being asked to report on its use so that further documentation of its effectiveness could be noted. |
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