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MedPro Group. MedPro Group, formerly known as Medical Protective, is a Berkshire Hathaway company and the largest provider of healthcare liability ( medical malpractice) insurance in the United States. MedPro provides customized malpractice insurance, claims, and risk cover to physicians, surgeons, dentists and other healthcare professionals ...
PULHES Factor. PULHES is a United States military acronym used in the Military Physical Profile Serial System. It is used to qualify an enlistee's physical profile for each military skill. Each letter in the acronym (see box below) is paired with a number from 1 to 4 to designate the service member's physical capacity.
Army Medical Department. The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army ( AMEDD ), formerly known as the Army Medical Service (AMS), encompasses the Army's six medical Special Branches (or "Corps"). It was established as the "Army Hospital" in July 1775 to coordinate the medical care required by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
1928 Amsterdam. 3000 m steeplechase. Paavo Johannes Nurmi ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpɑːʋo ˈnurmi] ⓘ; 13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner. He was called the " Flying Finn " or the "Phantom Finn", as he dominated distance running in the 1920s. Nurmi set 22 official world records at ...
Sanofi Pasteur. Sanofi Pasteur is the vaccines division of the French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi. Sanofi Pasteur is the largest company in the world devoted entirely to vaccines. It is one of four global producers of the yellow fever vaccine.
Independent medical examination. An independent medical examination (IME) is a medical evaluation performed on a patient by a medical professional who was not previously involved in the treatment of that patient, to evaluate the patient's course of prior treatment and current condition. IMEs are conducted by doctors, psychologists, and other ...
Maximum speed. 67.6 km/h (42.0 mph), 5.8 km/h (3.6 mph) swimming. The M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carrier (APC) that was developed and produced by the FMC Corporation. The M113 was sent to United States Army Europe in 1961 to replace the mechanized infantry's M59 APCs. The M113 was first used in combat in April 1962 after the ...
Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program. The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP), is the name of the policy set forth by the U.S. federal government to immunize its military and certain civilian personnel with BioThrax, an anthrax vaccine manufactured by Emergent BioSolutions Inc. It was set up by the Clinton administration.