THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1906.

Public Health and the Placebo: The Legacy of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the standard used by the FDA to approve new drugs. In particular, this paper shows how the FDA definition of effectiveness as effective beyond a placebo negatively impacts public health by denying consumers the benefit of a proven placebo treatment even when it is the only, or the safest, treatment available. Draft Date: April 4, 2001 The ...

Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906

Pure food: securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906

In analysing the attitudes and activities ofthe reformers, Meckel makes little effort to measure the actual rates and trends of morbidity and mortality. He makes relatively little use of statistics, believing that the debates over the impact of specific reforms on infant mortality rates will necessarily be inconclusive. He tends to ignore the demographic and "child survival" literature concerne...

Heart disease claims under the California Workmen's Compensation Act.

HE Cardiac in Industry Committee of the California Heart Association in 1951 initiated a study of the problem of the causation or aggravation of heart disease by occupational factors. This field seemed particularly pressing because important decisions affecting the employment of persons with heart disease, and in arranging insurance for them, were being based more uipoin speculation than upon f...

The Nobel Prize of 1906.

December 2006 marked 100 years since the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to 2 pioneers in the cellular anatomy of the central nervous system (CNS), Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Golgi developed the silver impregnation method for studying nerve cells, a technique that clearly showed entire cells with their arborizing dendrites and axons for the first time. R...