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1. The old, no less than the younger generations, are entitles to their share of right- including the right to care and compassion

Subject(s):: Aged
Physicians
Patients
World Health Organization

2. [A bone marrow transplant patient]

Subject(s):: Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

3. [A bone marrow transplant patient]

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Patients
World Health Organization

4. [A physician with students at the bedside of an old man]

Subject(s):: Aged
Schools, Medical
Students, Medical
Education, Medical
Teaching
Stethoscopes
Patients
Netherlands
World Health Organization

5. Taigichuan (Tai Chi), a kind of slow-motion martial art, is regarded as a healthy exercise for doctor and patients alike

Subject(s):: Patients
Physicians
World Health Organization

6. Cauterization, the application of heat, is a recognized form of treatment for certain mental disorders under the Tibetan system of medicine, which draws on both Ayurveda and Chinese traditional healing

Subject(s):: Patients
Mental Disorders
Physicians
Medicine, Traditional
World Health Organization

7. Before applying the healing power of his hands, the bomoh tells his patients to breathe deeply and then puts them into a trance

Subject(s):: Medicine, Traditional
Patients
World Health Organization

8. A Chinese "barefoot doctor" uses her needles to treat a production brigade worker

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Physicians
Patients
World Health Organization

9. Acupuncture being practised in France

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Physicians
Patients
France
World Health Organization

10. [The reintroduction of acupuncture has made an astonishing impact on Western medicine]

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Physicians
Patients
France
World Health Organization

11. [Acupuncture being used as anesthesia during chest operation]

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Operating Rooms
Patients
Nurses
World Health Organization

12. [Acupuncture anesthesia during an operation to remove a lung tumor]

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Patients
World Health Organization

13. In China today, the ancient skills of acupuncture are practiced in combination with modern medical methods. Here the needles are being electrically stimulated

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Patients
World Health Organization

14. " In this age of machinery and nuclear energy ..." Cancer: determination of the wrist-towrist circulation time by means of radioiodine is a useful diagnostic technique

Subject(s):: Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

15. This physician at the Centre for Adult Diseases in Osaka, Japan, is using advanced diagnostic techniques involving x-rays, television and fluroscopy for the detection of lung cancer

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Physical Examination
Patients
Physicians
World Health Organization

16. Gastric endoscopy, such as this patient is undergoing after local anaesthetic, uses a flexible fibre-optic to enable the doctor to examine the lining of the stomach and other previously inaccessible areas of the body

Subject(s):: Patients
Equipment and Supplies
Physicians
World Health Organization

17. [Patient wearing a portable pump for the administration of medication]

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Patients
Nurses
Hospital Units
France
World Health Organization

18. Patients in for observation ... play dominoes

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Clothing
Patients
USSR
World Health Organization

19. [Quiet time at a cancer care facility in Moscow]

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Patients
USSR
World Health Organization

20. The treatment of cancer varies from one patient to the next

Subject(s):: Physicians
Referral and Consultation
X-Rays
Patients
France
World Health Organization

21. [American Cancer Society volunteer assisting a patient in Tennessee]

Subject(s):: Volunteers
Women
Patients
World Health Organization

22. A routine check-up for a diabetes sufferer

Subject(s):: Aged
Physical Examination
Patients
World Health Organization

23. The health worker skillfully administers a local anaesthetic which will ensure that the forthcoming cataract operation is painless

Subject(s):: Injections
Nurses
Cataract Extraction
Patients
World Health Organization

24. After the operation a bandage remains on the eye to which sight has been restored

Subject(s):: Bandages
Nurses
Hospital Units
Patients
World Health Organization

25. [A patient is being assisted while walking shortly after eye surgery]

Subject(s):: Bandages
Patients
World Health Organization

26. Emergency treatment at home for a victim of a stroke

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
Physicians
Patients
World Health Organization

27. An electrocardiogram is registered. This person suffers from high blood pressure. Such patients should have their blood pressure checked regularly

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

28. A specially equipped ambulance linked by radio to the coronary care unit of a hospital. Energency treatment can be started immediatley

Subject(s):: Ambulances
Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Personnel
Transportation of Patients
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

29. A patient in the cardiological department

Subject(s):: Aged
Physicians
Pulse
Public Health
Patients

30. Professor Lars Werkö of the University Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden, speaks with one of his patients

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Patients
Physicians
Referral and Consultation
Hospital Units
Sweden
World Health Organization

31. [Physician with emergency heart patient]

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Patients
Physicians
Nurses
Referral and Consultation
World Health Organization

32. Before a decision on treatment is made, the patient is examined thoroughly. The examination may include heart catheterization ans angiography. The A.L Miasmikov Institute of Cardiology in Moscow conducts detailed studies of the various cardiovascular disease and their distribution in relation to age

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Physicians
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
Nurses
USSR
World Health Organization

33. A Japanese doctor at the bedside of a heart disease patient. In cases such as this, quick medical intervention can save lives

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Physicians
Patients

34. ... a waiting room for cardiac patients taking part in a survey of cardiovascular diseases

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Hospitals
Patients
Sweden
World Health Organization

35. An elderly woman has her blood tested for blood sugar, uric acid and cholesterol levels in the course of a hypertension study made by the Philippine Heart Centre for Asia

Author(s):: Abcede, José, photographer
Publication:: [1978]
Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases -- prevention & control
Hypertension -- prevention & control
Hematologic Tests
Women
Patients
Philippines
World Health Organization.

36. [The hands of Professor Clarence Crafoord of Stockholm, a pioneer of modern heart surgery, are shown taking the pulse of a patient, of whom only a hand is shown]

Author(s):: Almasy, Paul, 1906-2003, photographer
Publication:: [1955-1965?]
Subject(s):: Pulse
Cardiovascular Diseases
Surgeons
Patients
Hand
Sweden
Crafoord, Clarence.
World Health Organization.

37. Postgraduates at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital are taught cardiac auscultation with the aid of a multi-channel stethoscope

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Students, Medical
Education, Medical
Stethoscopes
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
Nigeria
World Health Organization

38. Through an arm artery, a plastic catheter has been passed into the heart to reach a coronary artery. An injected opaque medium shows up on x-rays and enables the doctor to see the condition of the coronaries; picture 13150 shows close-up of x-rays screen

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Physicians
Health Personnel
X-Rays
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

39. A young patient with rheumatic fever on the terrace of the Pyramid Clinic

Subject(s):: Nurses
Patients
World Health Organization

40. He is waiting for the operating table to be free

Subject(s):: Operating Rooms
Ophthalmology
Cataract Extraction
Patients
World Health Organization

41. Ice treatment against heat prostration

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
Physicians
Patients
Pulse
World Health Organization