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Earlier this year the National Institute of Health (NIH) suspended funding to Columbia for research with non-rodent animals after several unannounced spot checks at school facilities...
Approximately 15 percent of animals used at the Health Sciences Division--which includes the medical, dental, and nursing schools--are affected under the NIH's action to rescind $75 million in funding...
Three doctors--Clyde Crumpacker of Beth Israel Hospital, Martin Hirsch of Massachusetts General Hospital, and Jerome E. Groopman of New England Deaconess--said last week they will apply to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to become one of five to 15 groups testing Compound S, a modification of a DNA component, thymidine...
Some doctors are uncertain that there will be any further testing. "It's all talk," said Dr. David Ho, a staff member of the infectuous disease unit at MGH and one of Hirsch's colleagues. "There has been no firm decision on the part of the doctors and NIH" to expand anti-AIDS drug testing...
...French announcement and the resulting furor underscore the frenetic pace of AIDS research. At the NIH in Bethesda, Md., calls come in virtually every day from drug manufacturers claiming to have a new treatment for the disease. About half a dozen drugs are currently under serious study. Several, including ribavirin, suramin and one called compound S, have shown promise in blocking the replication of the AIDS virus. But few, if any, have demonstrated the potential to rebuild the devastated immune systems of AIDS patients...