TY - JOUR
T1 - New Health Research Group
AU - Wolfe, Sidney
AU - Nader, Ralph
PY - 1971/10/21
Y1 - 1971/10/21
N2 - To the Editor: We should like to call attention to the formation of a new Health Research Group, a Washington-based organization doing consumer-oriented studies in three major areas: occupational health and safety; drugs and product safety (FDA); and the health-care delivery system. Examples of specific projects presently under study include industrial mercury poisoning, noise, pneumoconioses, liquid lye, ketamine (a “dissociative” anesthetic), aerosols, hazards of blood transfusions and the nonaccountability of the present health-care system. People with expertise in these or other areas are urged to correspond with us so that scientific information might be translated into local and federal action ….
AB - To the Editor: We should like to call attention to the formation of a new Health Research Group, a Washington-based organization doing consumer-oriented studies in three major areas: occupational health and safety; drugs and product safety (FDA); and the health-care delivery system. Examples of specific projects presently under study include industrial mercury poisoning, noise, pneumoconioses, liquid lye, ketamine (a “dissociative” anesthetic), aerosols, hazards of blood transfusions and the nonaccountability of the present health-care system. People with expertise in these or other areas are urged to correspond with us so that scientific information might be translated into local and federal action ….
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197110212851723
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197110212851723
M3 - Letter
C2 - 5096241
AN - SCOPUS:0015235586
VL - 285
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 17
ER -