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...company, BioPort, for only one client: the U.S. military. But BioPort stopped producing the vaccine in 1998, when the FDA cited the company for lapses in quality control at its Lansing, Mich., plant. BioPort reapplied for approval last Monday, but in the interim, both the military and NIH have been pushing two newer vaccines into clinical trials, in hope of finding a vaccine with fewer side effects. Public health officials still see no need to inoculate the general public...
...first page of the form asks two questions—whether members of FAS are involved in research that could be viewed as a conflict of interest, and whether they receive grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or Public Health Services (PHS), in which case federal law requires they disclose their financial interests. If the answer to both questions is no, no further questions are asked; otherwise, Faculty are required to disclose their external financial interests at greater length, as well as report “other activities...that may be perceived as presenting a conflict...
...vastly larger number was enough, Bush said, to "explore the promise and potential of stem-cell research"--and, not incidentally, enough to give him room for a politically palatable compromise on the question of federal funding. But last week came another surprise, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a catalog of the existing 64 stem-cell lines that are eligible for government money--a surprise, this time, to the researchers around the globe who were reportedly producing them...
...number grow so big? In the weeks before the President's speech, an order came down to the NIH from Thompson: Work the scientific grapevine to find out how many cell lines might conceivably exist. But Jay Lefkowitz, the White House official who worked the issue with HHS, insists that it was merely an effort to build on existing NIH data. Last month Lefkowitz said it was "at the President's direct instigation" that he asked the NIH "to press further" in its search. But, he told Time last week, "no one said, 'Jay, go out and find more lines...
...NIH negotiations this week will apply only to scientists who work directly for the federal agency. But according to NIH officials, any agreement will serve as a future guideline for all researchers who get government stem-cell funding. And unless the NIH and the folks from Wisconsin are badly overestimating the goodwill on both sides, those guidelines shouldn't be awfully hard to live...