On February 8th, the Minister of Health announced the composition of the new Committees on Clinical Psychiatry and on the Epideminology of Mental Disorders under the chairmanship respectively of Professor Sir George Pickering and Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis. Each Committee, the Minister said, had appointed working parties to study special aspects of its field, such as the psychopathic personalit...

The Honorable Minister has brilliantly outlined the current status of medical technology--not only in Brazil but worldwide--and has analyzed the trends and the necessary measures for correcting the problems identified. I sincerely congratulate you for the clarity of your presentation, Mr. Minister, and I would like to express the firm commitment of the Pan American Health Organization to accomp...