Tommy Dower and the Perth newspapers

Letter from Tommy Thompson

In my years at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we have made tremendous progress in our efforts to improve the health, safety, and well-being of the American people. The Department's recent Steps to a HealthierUS initiative aims to help Americans live longer, better, and healthier lives by reducing the burden of diabetes, overweight, obesity, asthma, heart disease and stroke, a...

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April 12, 1955--Tommy Francis and the Salk vaccine.

April 12, 1955, was supposed to be Tommy Francis’s day. At 10:20 a.m., the distinguished epidemiologist was scheduled to conduct an international press conference in Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan. The topic was the field trial he had just completed — the largest of its kind ever — evaluating the efficacy of the poliovirus vaccine developed by Jonas Salk at the University of P...

Tommy: Preliminary Report on a Superior Child

Serious as may be these excesses of virtue, they are so infrequent as seldom to be a cause of concern for a clinical psychologist. Divers indeed are the problems presented by those who come and go through a psychological clinic, but a father bringing a boy excessively devoted to telling the truth offers a problem of a most unusual and unexpected character. Such was Tommy, a huskylooking tow-hai...