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...department also administers such institutions as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration...
...work should be funded and supervised by the Federal Government through the National Institutes of Health. That will avoid abuses by for-profit corporations, avoid secrecy and destructive competition between laboratories and ensure the widest possible dissemination of scientific breakthroughs. Human trials should be conducted either on the NIH campus or in carefully monitored clinical facilities...
Fortunately, stem cells are readily available and easily harvested. In fertility clinics, women are given a choice of what to do with unused fertilized embryos: they can be discarded, donated to research or frozen for future use. Under NIH supervision, scientists should be allowed to take cells only from women who freely consent to their use for research. This process would not be open ended; within one to two years a sufficient number could be gathered and made available to investigators. For those reasons, the ban on federally funded human embryonic stem-cell research should be lifted as quickly...
Controversy over the treatment of certain diseases is nothing new in this country: witness the overwhelming opposition to government funding of AIDS research in the early '80s. For years the issue was a political football--until a massive grass-roots effort forced legislators to respond. Today, the NIH is authorized to spend approximately $1.8 billion annually on new protocols, and the virus is largely under control...
Surprise: unlike me, it turns out, the average American puts on a mere 0.8 lb. during the food-filled six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's. "It's a myth that adults will gain 5 to 10 lbs. during winter," asserts Jack Yanovski, head of NIH's Growth and Obesity unit, who led the research. On the contrary, Americans gain just a few ounces from September through November, then remain relatively stable from March through August. Over the entire 12 months, the average gain adds up to less than 1 1/2 lbs. So much for that legendary holiday bulge...