Word: affectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The NIH no longer allows studies to exclude women without evidence that they are not affected by the disease under scrutiny.
Stampfer, the lead author of the vitamin E study on women, says it sometimes makes sense to oversample specific groups because they are predominantly affected by the disease in question. "[Allocations of funding] should be driven by science, not by politics," he says.
The Republican Congress wants to change all that. In place of an open-ended entitlement, the G.O.P. proposes block grants that would essentially give states a lump sum each year to spend for Medicaid's traditional purposes as the states see fit. The G.O.P. would then slow the growth rates...
Switzerland? If Christopher expects the Dayton agreement to transform Bosnia into a placid land of bankers and cuckoo clocks, he should listen to the recollections of Smail Hodzic, a farmer from Srebrenica. When Bosnian Serbs overran the town last July, he was taken to a basketball gym a few miles...
They have attacked Republican cutbacks in student aid, welfare and Medicaid among others. In every case, the Democratic party has tried to portray the Republican cutbacks needed to balance the budget as disastrous for the individual special interest group that will be affected. Never once have they stopped to consider...