United States Public Health Service

(USPHS)

a governmental health agency that is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services; see also public health.

U·ni·ted States Pub·lic Health Ser·vice (USPHS),

(yū-nī'tĕd stāts pŭb'lik helth ser'vis),

A bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services, served by a corps of medical officers presided over by the Surgeon General, concerned with scientific research, domestic and insular quarantine, administration of government hospitals, publication of sanitary reports, and statistics; associated with it are the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other units.

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U·ni·ted States Pub·lic Health Ser·vice

(USPHS) (yū-nī'tĕd stāts pŭb'lik helth sĕr'vis)

A bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, served by a corps of medical officers presided over by the Surgeon General, concerned with scientific research, domestic and insular quarantine, administration of government hospitals, publication of sanitary reports, and statistics; associated with it are the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other agencies.

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Uni·ted States Pub·lic Health Ser·vice

(USPHS) (yū-nī'tĕd stāts pŭb'lik helth sĕr'vis)

Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, served by a corps of medical officers presided over by the Surgeon General, concerned with scientific research, domestic and insular quarantine, administration of government hospitals, publication of sanitary reports, and statistics.

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2, 1956, MS C 471 (Public Health Service Hospitals historical collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.); Stein, Alone No Longer, 60, 168; Martin, Miracle at Carville, 151, 204.

Leprosy, domesticity, and patient protest: the social context of a patients' rights movement in mid-century America

"Last week, a successful Wales-wide exercise was held to rehearse for an outbreak of this nature, and we are well placed to deal with its effects." Dr Roland Salmon, Director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, National Public Health Service for Wales, said: "It is inevitable that we will see some cases of swine flu in Wales, but it is also extremely likely that some people undergoing investigation will test negative as their symptoms could have several other causes.

'No swine flu' as rumours spread; SWINE FLU OUTBREAK LATEST: No plans to issue facemasks to public

The Public Health Service officials who administered the medical inspections derived their authority not from technology, but rather from their judgment and knowledge of the art (as opposed to the science) of medicine.

Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force

(The full official title is Public Health Service Task Force Recommendations for the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant HIV-1 Infected Women for Maternal Health and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV-1 Transmission in the United States.

Updated Guidelines for Prevention of Mother-to-Infant Transmission

I joined the Public Health Service believing that government service was important work, and I left it with the same conviction.

What one doctor learned: going from policy making to caring for real patients at an inner-city clinic

Public Health Service have become official nags, urging us to shape up so we can reach the health goals they have set for the nation.

What the doctor orders

Public Health Service in Rockville, Md., emphasizes the drug's beneficial role for people suffering from a condition known as atrial fibrillation (AF).

Widely used drug prevents strokes

Public Health Service. Since its founding, the U.S.

Closing General Session

* US Public Health Service (retired), Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ([dagger]) Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, Washington, DC, USA; and ([double dagger]) Infectious Diseases Physicians, Annandale, Virginia, USA

HIV transmission in correctional facility

Despite several calls to the National Public Health Service (NHPS), which has set up an incident management team to investigate the outbreak, there was nobody available to answer our questions yesterday.

Worried schools boil water