Excerpt from National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung, and Blood Program: Third Report of the Director of the National Heart and Lung Institute; December 29, 1975 The National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung, and Blood Program Plan, and two previous annual reports of the nhlbi Director covered in detail the status, accomplishments, and future short and mid-term goals of the National Program, together with long - range objectives and planned actions directed toward their achievement. Legislative update of the 1972 Act in 1976 changes the reporting period from a calendar year to a fiscal year basis. Therefore, the current report has been prepared to cover the nine-month period from January 1, 1975, through September 30, 1975, thereby bringing subsequent annual reports into conformity with the new reporting requirements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.