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...there's reason to be cynical about the Pentagon's record on not hanging servicemen "out to dry" on medical issues. Plenty of veterans of the Free Cigarettes War, the Agent Orange War and the Gulf War Illness War will attest to that. The Pentagon, the CDC and the NIH are all working furiously on a new, safer vaccine, as well as studying ways to make the current one easier on the arm than it is now. Which would only serve to make me feel like a sucker if they, or Congress, get their act together sometime next fall...
Long says this kind of funding--unlike that from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--rarely comes with limits on how it can be spent. For example, corporate grant money has also been used by sponsored departments to fund tuition and stipends for graduate student programs...
Having spent 21 years at NIH, whose conflict-of-interest policy he describes as "far more severe" than that of HMS, Sachs says the medical school's policy is appropriate...
...form of the adenovirus that causes the common cold--still retained some properties capable of triggering an immune response. Indeed, what has alarmed officials at the National Institutes of Health is how common such reactions to adenovirus appear to be--and how seldom researchers have reported them to the NIH. Out of 93 gene-therapy trials using adenovirus, it was recently revealed, there were 691 instances of adverse effects. Of those, the NIH was promptly notified of only 39--about 5% of the total...
...undertaking," says TIME correspondent Dick Thompson, "and most of the tests to date have failed." Still, companies that do hit on the right combination are spinning so much genetic straw into pure gold, and they don't want their competitors learning Rumplestiltskin's secrets on their dime. For the NIH, the task is to find a way to keep the public safe without giving away the company store...