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...overcome this obstacle, the NIH researchers-Drs. Brian Murphy, Elias Chalhub and Robert Chanock and Biologist Sandra Nusinoff-decided to beat the virus at its own flexible game. Vaccines now in use are made with a type of virus that has been killed and therefore has only limited ability to stimulate the body's immunological system. The new vaccine uses a combination of live viruses that brings about a stronger immune reaction. These active (though weakened) agents can also be grown in cultures more quickly, giving scientists a better chance of staying even with the most recent flu threat...
...virus used in the vaccine is a hybrid. Working in the NIH laboratories, the research team combined Hong Kong flu viruses from the 1968 epidemic with chemically altered samples of a 1965 strain. The result is a virus strong enough to produce immunity to the flu, but too weak to cause the disease itself...
What Rates? Williams & Wilkins conceded the value of photocopying -but they want to be compensated for it. Though the actual financial details were left for a commissioner to determine later, NIH estimated that payments to just one publisher over a three-month test period would have been about $300. Since Commissioner Davis' ruling, the publishing firm has offered to accept a fee based on the total pages published each year in a given magazine or a fee of 5? for each page copied...
...that research. Congress has been debating new federal approaches to cancer since last winter. At that time Senator Edward Kennedy proposed the creation of a separate cancer agency outside the National Institutes of Health. The Nixon Administration responded with a plan of its own for an expanded NCI within NIH, then was forced into a surrender disguised as a compromise (TIME, July 5). The Senate subsequently passed a bill, 79 to 1, creating an ambitiously named Conquest of Cancer Agency. It would be administratively and financially independent of NIH, though nominally part of the agency. The theory behind both plans...
...divert too much money from science efforts to clinical approaches. This fall they picked up an ally in the person of Florida Congressman Paul Rogers, chairman of the House Public Health and Welfare Subcommittee. Rogers drafted a bill to expand cancer research in the NCI within the present NIH-NCI framework. Before the House bill could be reported out, however, some proponents of the Senate bill counterattacked. They bought space in 22 newspapers serving the home districts of each House subcommittee member. The ad supported an independent cancer agency and urged readers to write to their Congressmen...