Word: nih
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good a job the Government agencies are doing and whether there is a danger in letting Big Government get a still bigger role in research. (Its share of costs has zoomed from 32% to more than 50% in ten years.) On the first score the committee concluded: NIH has done a generally excellent job; its system of making grants to universities and independent medical schools and research groups (TIME, Nov. 18) has avoided "the twin dangers of bureaucratic interference with science, leading to loss of freedom by scientists and universities, and of bureaucratic lassitude." But the committee warned that NIH...
Last week the nation's outlay for medical research was sure of a gentle uplift from Congress, possibly much more. As against a total of $211 million for NIH ($153 million of it for research) in the fiscal year ended June 30, the House voted $219 million for NIH, while the Senate's bill called for an Everest ascent to $321 million. At week's end House-Senate conferees were deadlocked, decided to take a two-week breather. But if the Senate prevailed over the House-even so far as to win a split-the-difference agreement...
...same five-year period, the Reds reported, they produced many new drugs, including some antibiotic-most of them unrecognizable to NIH experts under the names given. Of the identifiable items, several had been developed earlier in the U.S. Concluded the Soviet report: "As regards the high level of [Russian] scientific research, it stands above the pharmacology of foreign countries, although, as regards the discovery of new and effective medicinal substances, it still lags behind the large capitalistic states...
...estimated to have killed at least 100 Fore in each recent year. It is unknown elsewhere in New Guinea or in the rest of the world. This has led Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas to suspect a genetic defect, with at least a hereditary tendency to the disease. But NIH pathologists at Bethesda have found widespread nerve cell destruction in brains of six kuru victims, suggesting that the cause may be some kind of poisoning. So an intensive, detailed study of everything that the Fore people eat, drink, smoke, or paint on their bodies is under...
...despite successes in attracting young minds to science, Silber is not certain that he will be able to finish his project. Reason: his money runs out in December. He has asked NIH for another $6,700, but at week's end was still sweating out a decision. If NIH was keeping mum about Silber's request, one official was willing to pass out some high praise for Teacher Silber: "He is an enthusiastic and very competent scientist...