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...School of Public Health and a member of the research task force for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. By organizing their own scientific meetings, advocates help assess the state of research for a particular disease and look for areas that need strengthening. "That's unique to them," says NIH director Healy. "They are setting bold, far-reaching goals...
...elected officials were reluctant to give detailed directions to scientists. But for aggressive patient lobbyists, the lawmakers were an easy target. Activism on the front lines of medical research plays well to the hometown constituency. Now attached to every check from Congress is a growing list of what the NIH must do -- even while the total allocation remains roughly the same. The only way for the NIH to follow Congress's orders is to eliminate existing programs and transfer the resources. This year's budget for the National Cancer Institute, for example, contains an order to increase by more than...
...Many NIH watchers are now concerned that responding to congressional whims will undermine America's biomedical-research structure. "We're seeing the pie being split up into smaller and smaller segments," says David Moore, an official with the Association of American Medical Colleges. "Some of these groups have to be cautious," says John Seffrin, CEO of the American Cancer Society. "They could advocate for major shifts in funding in ways that on the surface makes sense but in the long haul do great violence to the scientific effort. It raises the prospect that these precious resources can be wasted...
...NIH's motive was to keep private companies from going after patents of their own -- and thus from having the power to keep potentially lifesaving but unprofitable therapies off the market. Put that way, the idea suddenly seems less absurd. NIH has three months to appeal the ruling...
...When I proposed this idea, people thought it was crazy," says Kenneth Culver, an oncology researcher at the National Cancer Institute. But it worked like a charm. In 11 of the 14 rats, the tumors disappeared completely. The results were so promising that an NIH watchdog committee has already okayed a similar test on humans. The risks are high. The researchers will, in effect, be putting mouse genes directly into human brains. But the payoff could be great. Scientists are now searching for other inoperable cancers that might succumb to what they are calling "molecular surgery...