[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 147 (Tuesday, August 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 39179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18838]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Response to Nasopharyngeal Radium Irradiation 
Workshop

    Yale University School of Medicine, the National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC), the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the 
Connecticut Department of Health announce the following meeting.

    Name: The Public Health Response to Nasopharyngeal Radium 
Irradiation Workshop.
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., September 27, 1995, 8:30 
a.m.-12:45 p.m., September 28, 1995.
    Place: Quality Inn (Conference Center), 100 Pond Lily Avenue, 
New Haven, Connecticut 06525, telephone 203/387-6651.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 250 people.
    Purpose: The purpose of this workshop is to review information 
on the medical use of nasopharyngeal radium irradiation, a medical 
treatment used from approximately 1940 to 1960, to evaluate current 
knowledge of risks of potential adverse health effects, and 
determine what, if any, public health assessments are needed for 
persons and populations who received nasopharyngeal radium 
irradiation.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Persons for More Information: Jan Stolwijk, Ph.D., 
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School 
of Medicine, 60 College Street, PO Box 208034, New Haven, 
Connecticut 06520-8034, telephone 203/785-2880, FAX 203/785-6980, or 
Anne Mellinger, M.D., Radiation Studies Branch, Division of 
Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, NCEH, CDC, 4770 Buford 
Highway, NE, M/S F-35, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 404/
488-7040, FAX 404/488-7044, e-mail: [email protected].

    Dated: July 25, 1995.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 95-18838 Filed 7-31-95; 8:45 am]
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