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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other provision of the bill most likely toaffect Harvard is the allotment of about an extra$2 billion dollars for the National Institutes ofHealth (NIH)--the largest budget increase in thatagency's history...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Gets Increased Funding From Federal Budget Bill | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...This is a tremendous boost for biomedicalresearch in the U.S.," said Laurie Broeder, aspokesperson for the Department of Health andHuman Services, NIH's parent agency in the federalgovernment...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Gets Increased Funding From Federal Budget Bill | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...could also be a big boost for theUniversity, which already received more than $174million in NIH funding last year--aroundtwo-thirds of all of Harvard's federal funding...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Gets Increased Funding From Federal Budget Bill | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...inability to get an erection, period, to the somewhat more elastic and subjective criterion of inability to get an erection adequate for "satisfactory sexual performance." This has led to a tripling of the number of men estimated to be impotent in this country--some 30 million according to the NIH, half of whom are thought to be under the age of 65. ED is associated with age; it affects about 1 in 20 men ages 40 and up, 1 in 4 over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Viagra Craze | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...furor that has yet to die down. According to Hamer and his colleagues, male homosexuality appeared to be linked to a stretch of DNA at the very tip of the X chromosome, the chromosome men inherit from their mothers. Three years later, in 1996, Hamer and his collaborators at NIH seconded an Israeli group's finding that linked a gene on chromosome 11 to the personality trait psychologists call novelty seeking. That same year Hamer's lab helped pinpoint another gene, this time on chromosome 17, that appears to play a role in regulating anxiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Personality Genes | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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