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Titles
- The trained nurse1
- The visiting nurse1
- The world's children: on a Korean rubbish heap1
- The world's children; in a hospital in Tunis1
- Think about the most crippling pain you've ever had: now you know how Kevin felt1
- This child was treated with insulin in 1922 by Frederick Banting and Charles Best, who a year earlier first isolated the insulin hormone for use in diabetic therapy. Only two months separate the "before" and "after" pictures1
- This girl is using a special mouth tray and bites into an insery saturated with flouride solution that can be applied to the entire upper or lower dental arch. This is one of the possible techniques to prevent tooth decay1
- This little Ghanaian child is one of the lucky ones - her mother was able to bring her to [the] hospital. Communicable diseases such as whooping cough and measles are reponsible for 30 per cent of certified deaths and 60 percent of hospital admissions in Ghana. But very few of the children who catch measles ever reach a hospital1
- This little boy is having an eye check-up which should ensure that any threat to his sight is recognized in time and prevented. Many thousands of less fortunate children go blind unnecessarily every year for want of simple precautions or low-cost treatment1
- This man being led through a village in Upper Volta is blind as a result of river blindness - onchocerciasis - and nearly 60 per cent of the people in his village suffer from this disease1
- This school girl is at home with a sore throat and the doctor checks her heart1
- This will keep Jack a going1
- This young Indian girl's face reflects the suffering caused by trachoma. Some two million are estimated to be blinf as a reuslt of this eye disease1
- To arms!: who wouldn't rush to arms with a nurse like you!1
- To childhood illness1
- To spend a lifetime in the dark- like this little Indonesian child- is tragedy enough. Even more shocking is the fact that this blindness is unnecessary and preventable1
- Toothbrush drill in New York City1
- Trained Ayurvedic practitioners treating a girl with rheumatoid arthritis. Medical ethics today has ceased to be a matter for physicians alone,but is rather the concern of the whole community1
- Training for the red cross!1
- Two children study health education posters1