Babies born in Massachusetts, with the most comprehensive program, are tested for 11 conditions.
"This is the most comprehensive program I've heard of," said Charles Jarvis, chairman of the United Seniors Association, an advocacy group.
"California has the most comprehensive program for protecting nonsmokers from secondhand smoke," Ken August, a state health department spokesman, said.
But even the most comprehensive program will make little difference in our high rate of gun violence.
In Arkansas, which has one of the most comprehensive programs aimed at the problem, obesity among the 450,000 children in 1,300 public schools has plateaued.
Correction: February 20 , 2002 Wednesday The Personal Health column in Science Times on Jan . 29about testing the blood of newborns for genetic and metabolic disorders misidentified the state with the most comprehensive program.
According to Elsa Cameron, former director of the San Francisco Airport Museum, who started one of the nation's oldest and most comprehensive programs, unless the airport staff is already highly trained in handling museum-quality objects, "it's usually cheaper and smarter if local museums curate exhibitions".
Beijing maintains the world's largest and most comprehensive program of incentives promoting foreign sales, and Chinese officials have shown no signs of reducing them.
A suitable piece of software is presented to connect Abaqus, a sophisticated finite element package, with Matlab, the most comprehensive program for mathematical analysis.
The party, that in its heyday could pride itself as the voice of the most comprehensive program of Arab nationalism, has finished its historic role at the time of its accession to power in Syria almost 49 years ago, on March 8th , 1963
