Word: nih
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supplied Harvard with $17.5 million last fiscal year, and NIH gave part of the $74 million in HHS funds the University received. HHS has the responsibility to audit all of Harvard's federally funded research...
...Richard J. Powers, a high financial official at the National Institute of Health (NIH), says simply that sloppy documentation often obscures reasonable accounting practices. If Harvard had better documentation, he explains, "I suspect that maybe the auditors would have recognized that [the cost transfers] were legitimate...
That justification didn't sway Dr. Mark Glier, a great scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a leading opponent of the project. "Even in the unlikely chance that a plane crashes into a laboratory or a terrorist group acquires the newly-cloned strain and puts it into a city's water supply, the results could be more of a disaster than the atomic bomb...
...virus' reproduction by blocking protein synthesis in affected cells. Another drug sold abroad but not in the U.S. is Newport Pharmaceuticals' isoprinosine. According to Newport President Alvin Glasky, the drug "speeds up the body's natural curing process" by boosting the immune system. But so far, experts at NIH reject it as being of no proven benefit. Last week scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio announced that a new experimental drug for herpes, BIOLF-62, looked promising and might be tested later this year on humans...
...symptoms and arrive at different conclusions. Most medical decisions are educated guesswork; nevertheless, the computers are already functioning well. A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association states that one SUMEX program performed at a level comparable to that of five medical experts at Stanford. William Baker, NIH administrator for the SUMEX project, says that a computer system at the University of Pittsburgh called CADUCEUS is so sophisticated that it "would be a board-certified internist if it were human." Pittsburgh researchers administered one part of an internal-medicine board exam to "Dr. CADUCEUS." It passed...