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...rather than on a continuous basis. For that reason, the National Institutes of Health last year published a set of guidelines for health-care workers that emphasize closer monitoring of lung function and more comprehensive care for the underlying condition. For any but the mildest cases of asthma, the nih recommends that doctors reorganize their first line of defense to include such anti-inflammatory agents as cromolyn sodium or inhaled steroids. This strategy, the experts believe, should lessen the number and severity of later complications...
...NIH report also described the project as trying to develop new technology for biological and biomedical research...
...NIH and the Department of Energy have also jointly formed the Working Group on the Ethical Legal and Social Implications of Human Genome Research to examine ethical issues related to the project...
...committee has focused its discussions on quality of and access to genetic tests, privacy issues involving genetic testing and public and professional education, according to an NIH report...
...NIH has filed patent applications for partial gene sequences that have been found, according to a statement by James D. Watson, director of the National Center for Human Genome Research and the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York...