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...According to Dr. Xianglin Du, assistant professor of internal medicine and geriatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and lead author of the study, there was "a clear divergence between recommendations from the National Institutes of Health and what is seen in clinical practice." The NIH guidelines, developed by experts in the field and released in November 2000, found "substantial" benefit from chemotherapy for both premenopausal and postmenopausal women up to age 70 and recommended post-surgical chemo in all cases in which tumors were greater than 1 cm in diameter...
...also appears to be good for the heart, lowering triglycerides and raising HDL, the "good" cholesterol. Studies were small, however, and the results preliminary. The last word will probably have to wait for the big five-year, $2.5 million clinical trial, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), that is tracking the health effects of the Atkins diet on 360 obese Americans. Meanwhile, the bottom line hasn't changed: you lose weight only when you burn more calories than you eat. (See E for Exercise...
...Gramm-Miller bill in the Senate contains provisions that would take $1.5 billion from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and place it under the control of the Department of Homeland Security for researching bioterrorism...
Casey said Harvard, which receives about $250 million annually from the NIH, is opposed to the move because the University feels that research decisions should be made by scientific institutions whenever possible...
Proponents of human therapeutic cloning hailed the NIH study as proof that scientists need to work with stem cells taken from embryos. Foes cited the Minnesota work as proof that the same results can be achieved without embryos...