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Researchers have identified the first effective treatment for sickle cell anemia, the fatal blood disorder that almost exclusively affects black Americans, the National Institutes of Health announced today. The drug, hydroxyurea, already in use as a cancer treatment, reduced sickle cell attacks so dramatically that NIH ended its trials four months early and today notified 5,000 doctors of the treatment. There is still no cure for the disease, but the new treatment will ameliorate the painful symptoms of sickle cell anemia, which often lead to hospitalization. About 8 percent of black Americans carry the gene that causes sickle cell...
...federal medical funding is getting tighter, but not for therapeutic touch. Over the past decade, the nih has awarded at least $150,000 in grants for TT research; and the Department of Defense, through Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has just awarded a University of Alabama researcher the largest TT grant yet: $355,000 to study the effects of the practice on burn patients. "What next for the dod?" asks Scheiber. "Faith healing...
...Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) "was not made aware that NIH had repeatedly warned Harvard about the problem over the last 18 months," Berman and Leahy's memo said...
Eric Shropshire, director of financial services for the Office for Sponsored Research, said that Proctor received a letter from the NIH on October 25 and had responded as quickly as he could...
...percent of our reports on time and they wanted 90 percent," Shropshire said. "Basically, we are putting into place a status report management and a reporting plan. We will hire two additional staff to address the workload and will give NIH top priority...