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Sacks' research team tested the guidelines established by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which recommends drug therapy to patients with heart disease and normal cholesterol to lower their cholesterol levels below average...
...NIH classifies cholesterol levels of healthy individuals into three groups: "high" with cholesterol levels above 240, "border-line" with levels around 200, and "desirable" with levels less than 200. The classifications change for patients with coronary disease...
...percent when compared with patients who are treated only with aspirin, the other touted medication. "The study has the potential of improving the health and quality of life for thousands of Americans," said Zach W. Hall, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a NIH agency. About 150,000 Americans are killed annually by stroke. About 75 percent of these strokes are attributed to narrowed carotid arteries...
...children," and that scientists should be allowed to conduct federally funded experiments on them -- albeit with strict controls. One of these, the panel recommends, is to limit research to embryos that are no older than 14 days, the time when a fetus begins to develop a nervous system. The NIH is expected to make a final decision this December. Today's announcement was nothing less than testing the murky waters of public opinion on this kind of research, said TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. "The NIH will be watching the November congressional elections," he says. "If a superconservative majority...
While treading cautiously in many areas, the NIH panel is supportive of several innovative lines of research. For example, biologists have learned how to trick unfertilized animal eggs into developing as if they had been fertilized. Without the sperm's DNA, however, these so-called parthenotes quickly perish. One tentative NIH proposal would allow scientists to produce parthenotes from human eggs. Such experiments could yield information on how embryonic cells influence each other's growth...