Word: nih
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into law. Now Congress is trying to salvage other health measures. The House, under the leadership of Representative Paul Rogers of Florida, has passed a $415 million training and fellowship bill that is also expected to win Senate approval. The House Appropriations Committee is attempting to restore all NIH items to or above the 1972 funding level and re-establish the old ratio between new and ongoing research grants. If Congress succeeds in saving these programs, it can still prevent both the lights in the laboratories and the luster of American medicine from being dimmed...
...overcome this obstacle, the NIH researchers-Drs. Brian Murphy, Elias Chalhub and Robert Chanock and Biologist Sandra Nusinoff-decided to beat the virus at its own flexible game. Vaccines now in use are made with a type of virus that has been killed and therefore has only limited ability to stimulate the body's immunological system. The new vaccine uses a combination of live viruses that brings about a stronger immune reaction. These active (though weakened) agents can also be grown in cultures more quickly, giving scientists a better chance of staying even with the most recent flu threat...
...virus used in the vaccine is a hybrid. Working in the NIH laboratories, the research team combined Hong Kong flu viruses from the 1968 epidemic with chemically altered samples of a 1965 strain. The result is a virus strong enough to produce immunity to the flu, but too weak to cause the disease itself...
...NIH officials warned that extensive trials and testing must still be conducted before the new vaccine can be licensed and made available to the public. But they are cautiously confident that the vaccine will be ready in time for the next predicted flu epidemic...
What Rates? Williams & Wilkins conceded the value of photocopying -but they want to be compensated for it. Though the actual financial details were left for a commissioner to determine later, NIH estimated that payments to just one publisher over a three-month test period would have been about $300. Since Commissioner Davis' ruling, the publishing firm has offered to accept a fee based on the total pages published each year in a given magazine or a fee of 5? for each page copied...