Discusses the use of drugs in controlling human behavior, referring particularly to problems associated with applying results from animal experiments to humans, the technique of controlled experiments, the biochemistry of behavior, behavioral disturbances, the uses and effects of psycho-drugs, and the questions of ethics and potential abuse. (JR)

Articulate consumer concern for the quality and price of health care is predicted to be a permanent feature of the working environment of health professionals. The American Hospital Association Patient's Bill of Rights is identified and analyzed as an important factor in the consumer revolution. (Author/EA)

Literature reviews show that there are 3 alternative models of the determinants of the utilization of health services: (1) unequal access; (2) culture of poverty; and, (3) cultural and social psychological differences related to ethnicity and SES. On the basis of data gathered in Los Angeles, implications of findings for pluralism in the…

Of 25 hearing impaired college-age students tested over a period of one year, the hearing of three students changed substantially. (Author )

Evaluated by radiography was tongue size relative to the mouth cavity in eight children from 5 to 15 years of age with Down's syndrome. (DB)

Discussed is the prenatal diagnosis of a variety of fetal disease states or malformations as related to maternal infections. (DB)

Presented is a statement by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness on control of gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum (newborn blindness due to maternal gonococcal infection). (DB)

Savings in hospital reimbursements through use of extended-care facilities to shorten hospital stays for Medicare patients have more than outweighed the costs of the extended-care facilities. (MF)

A method of silent coughing is recommended as an alternative to coughing and throat clearing which are described as vocally abusive activities that can be directly related to laryngeal disease. (Author/GW)