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...discovery of the AIDS virus came much sooner than anyone could have expected. "We have never made such rapid progress with any disease in the past," says Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services. It was in May 1983 that a French team led by Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris first published evidence of a new virus that appeared to play a role in the disease. The following spring, Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he had conclusively identified the AIDS virus and produced it in large quantities...
...April of last year, when the identification and mass production of the AIDS virus was announced in Washington, Health Secretary Heckler vowed that blood-screening tests would be available in record time. Medical scientists made good on that promise within nine months. Still, the fact that the test kits, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, Electro-Nucleonics and Litton Bionetics, were produced in crash programs prompted many fears about the reliability and precision of the tests. Of particular concern was the chance that too many blood samples would register an incorrect positive reading, falsely suggesting the presence of AIDS antibodies. Last week...
Responding to the criticism, Secretary Heckler last month announced a request for a 47% increase in research funds. She insists that "the important research into education, treatment and vaccines is being funded," but Congressman Henry Waxman of California disagrees. "The new request for more money is helpful, but very inadequate," he says. "The Administration should be putting together a Manhattan Project to push research as fast as possible...
...diminutive (5 ft. 5 in.) Bowen, 67, maintained the gentle demeanor of a country doctor while running the state in the "less government is more" tradition, cutting taxes and leaving Indiana with some of the paltriest welfare benefits in the U.S. Reagan appointed him to replace HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler, who was pushed out to become Ambassador to Ireland...
...easygoing former family practitioner is expected to be more of a team player than Heckler, whose clashes with White House insiders, mainly Chief of Staff Donald Regan, led to her downfall. Bowen served as chairman of the Advisory Council on Social Security, which helped rescue the foundering system in 1984. He promised last week to perform his new job "with as much efficiency and compassion as I can." Expect him also to attempt to hold the line on the gargantuan ($327.8 billion) HHS budget. ARMED FORCES Dollar Wars Over Star Wars...