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...compared to the value derived from the virtual eradication of poliomyelitis. It has been calculated that if polio had not been prevented, the cost to the country in 1990 of caring for the millions of people with polio would exceed all the funds that have been spent by the NIH in the past 30 years. In 1955 essentially all children who developed acute leukemia died quickly with an enormous amount of suffering because of infections, because of anemia, because of bleeding tendencies. Today 70% of all children with acute leukemia are cured by combined chemotherapy programs. It is the best...
...Suzanne W. Hadley, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Scientific Integrity. This week the NIH concluded a year-long investigation into a study by five School of Public Health professors, and cleared the professors of charges that they had falsified data in their study of air quality in six major cities...
...must tell you," says Charles Hennekens, who heads the study, "the beta carotene aspect was supposed to end in December 1990." Lacking sufficient data, however, Hennekens and his colleagues have applied to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for extended funding through 1996. Ninety-two percent of the physicians involvedas subjects in the study have agreed to continuetaking their pills, Hennekens says...
...questions remain about how this treatment might alter the risks of breast cancer and heart disease. Says Guinan: "As doctors, we think we're helping women when we may actually be harming them." Meanwhile, no new contraceptive method has been approved in the U.S. since the 1960s. Overall, the NIH spends only 13% of its $7.7 billion budget on women's health issues, < according to the Women's Caucus...
Officially, the NIH has had a policy since 1986 of requiring grant applicants to at least "consider" including women in their research. But that policy has been limply enforced. In September NIH acting director Dr. William Raub set up a special office to explore the problem...