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Changes in NIH's leadership, Ebert said, caused many people to feel medical research funding at NIH should be examined...
...board will concentrate its initial efforts on the National Institute of Health which has become increasingly controversial since the rapid expansion of its National Cancer Institute that now accounts for about one-third of NIH's budget...
...National Institutes of Health were quite understandably disturbed and mystified. Eight patients under treatment for cancer had suddenly been struck with blood poisoning; until doctors learned what caused the condition, they were powerless to prevent other patients from being infected. Unable to find the cause on their own, the NIH doctors called in investigators from the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta...
When they learned of the students' plans, NIH officials offered to meet with them instead, and the result of the parley was total capitulation. Apparently deciding that public attitudes are unalterably opposed to experimentation, the NIH declared emphatically that it "does not now support research on live aborted human fetuses and does not contemplate approving the support of such research...
...revised guidelines, which must still be approved by NIH Director Dr Robert S. Stone and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ban all experiments involving women about to undergo abortions if they might harm the fetus, and prohibit any experiments that would prolong the life of an abort ed fetus once its ultimate survival is judged to be impossible. Few research ers are expected to violate the ban, which applies to any American scientist receiving NIH support. Anyone who does can lose federal support for all other research he may be conducting...