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...objected last month to "certain aspects" of the NIH's accounting procedure, which was tightened January 1 to prevent the misuse of funds. Med School officials summarized their objections in a letter to the Public Health Service, the division of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare that runs NIH...
...Medical School administers between $4 million and $6 million worth of NIH research grants a year. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Public Health, and the School of Dental Medicine also receive NIH...
Henry C. Meadow, Associate Dean of the Med School, said it did not criticize specific details of the stricter NIH procedures, since it might be possible to reach an understanding with the government on them. Instead, Meadow explained, the school pointed to the general implications of the new plan. He denied that the School feared growing government control over its operations...
...first month after delivery are among the 7% born prematurely. Some doctors, though, see no direct connection between smoking and prematurity; they argue that the problem is a matter of temperament, that high-strung women who smoke would have a high proportion of "preemies" anyway. To make sure, NIH's Dr. Richard Masland wants to check the same mothers before and after they quit smoking...
...design of the experiment is straightforward enough, and it might have been started earlier but for one drawback: there was no way to check on the women being tested to make sure that they did not sneak an occasional secret drag. Now NIH has found a chemical detective. Researchers at San Antonio's Southwest