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...headquarters of NIH, Cohen got a more sympathetic response. After an NIH audit, the agency hit Harvard for a refund of $132,000. "Most of Cohen's allegations had substance," says NIH Division Manager James Shriver. "When we completed our investigation of his activities, Harvard made restitution almost immediately." But NIH was sufficiently aroused to ask for a broader investigation by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW's preliminary findings, released earlier this year, hit Cambridge like a ton of red tape: HEW auditors questioned the way Harvard accounted for 40% of $37 million in federal...
...they concluded what an increasing number of studies have been showing: that if breast cancer is discovered when tumors are still small (even if nearby lymph nodes are also cancerous), radicals may no longer be the preferred treatment. For such cases, although not necessarily in more advanced ones, the NIH "consensus" panel endorsed the so-called total mastectomy, with removal of some lymph nodes. This procedure, the panelists said, would not lessen chances of survival and offers several advantages...
Cohen then went to the NIH in December, 1975. His statements launched an investigation that led to Harvard's refund of $132,000 in grant money the following year...
...federal funds in the Medical School and the School of Public Health began in 1975, when Dr. Phin Cohen, a researcher and assistant professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health since 1969, was not reappointed to his position. Cohen's salary was based on two NIH grants that he obtained in 1971, but which Harvard allegedly used to pay some expenses not related to the researcher's projects...
...NIH then requested that HEW conduct a full-scale investigation of grants to the Medical School and the School of Public Health. No action was taken until a year later, when Dr. Cohen's experiences were brought to the attention of a Congressional subcommittee charged with overseeing...