Word: nih
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that research. Congress has been debating new federal approaches to cancer since last winter. At that time Senator Edward Kennedy proposed the creation of a separate cancer agency outside the National Institutes of Health. The Nixon Administration responded with a plan of its own for an expanded NCI within NIH, then was forced into a surrender disguised as a compromise (TIME, July 5). The Senate subsequently passed a bill, 79 to 1, creating an ambitiously named Conquest of Cancer Agency. It would be administratively and financially independent of NIH, though nominally part of the agency. The theory behind both plans...
...divert too much money from science efforts to clinical approaches. This fall they picked up an ally in the person of Florida Congressman Paul Rogers, chairman of the House Public Health and Welfare Subcommittee. Rogers drafted a bill to expand cancer research in the NCI within the present NIH-NCI framework. Before the House bill could be reported out, however, some proponents of the Senate bill counterattacked. They bought space in 22 newspapers serving the home districts of each House subcommittee member. The ad supported an independent cancer agency and urged readers to write to their Congressmen...
...test tube. But if the results withstand the scrutiny of further testing, the researchers are convinced that their experiment will provide new insights into the workings of the genes. Even more important, it may offer effective means of correcting defects in the human body. Working toward that goal, the NIH scientists disclosed at week's end that they are already attempting the same kind of genetic transplant with a laboratory animal...
...NIH team became interested in the condition when baffled private physicians began referring individual patients to neurologists. The Government scientists studied 35 of the 3,000 Americans known to suffer from idiopathic hypogeusia. The doctors confirmed the symptoms by placing drops of sour, sweet, salt and bitter solutions on the subjects' tongues and holding solutions smelling like onions or burned rubber under their noses. The NIH researchers were puzzled as to the cause of the condition but decided that it does not appear to be psychosomatic. At least half of the patients developed their symptoms following influenza-like illnesses...
...result of this conflict was a compromise. Kennedy agreed to the creation of a new, ambitiously named Conquest of Cancer Agency within NIH, yet administratively independent. The agency's director would be appointed by the President and responsible to him. Its budget requests would bypass NIH and go directly to the White House's Office of Management and Budget. Despite reservations, the Administration accepted Kennedy's proposal. The compromise bill will be reported out of the Senate Labor and Welfare Committee this week...