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...surgeons who are queasy about operating without a transfusion backup, the operating field is not black and white. The jury is still out on whether it is safe to withhold blood, and large-scale clinical trials have yet to be performed. Last year an nih-funded study tried to get some answers. Dr. Jeffrey Carson, chief of the division of general internal medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J., studied records of 1,950 bloodless-surgery patients in an effort to determine the relationship between patients' hemoglobin levels and the risk of dying or developing...
...risk that the catheters used to administer the drugs may become contaminated, leading to serious infections of the bloodstream and even the heart. Clearly, intravenous antibiotics should not be withheld from people who truly need them. Who truly needs them is, of course, what's in dispute. The NIH is funding a $4.5 million study in an effort to sort out both the best definitions and the best treatments for chronic Lyme disease...
Fans of Cantor say they think that NIH has chosen wisely--especially because he and his team of more than 15 researchers are on the cusp of developing a promising treatment for cancer...
...NIH gave a total of 51 Merit Awards in 1996, Moore says. Scientists are chosen carefully, going through several stages of scrutiny before final approval, he says. However, he says the grant is not a sure thing quite...
Robert F. Moore, a fund manager for NIH, says the MERIT award will allow Cantor to continue his research...