The Committee notes that, at most, 10 to 11 percent of breast cancer research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) focus on environmental health.
Last year, two government-convened groups came to almost opposite conclusions about the dangers of BPA. On one side, 38 of the world's leading experts, who attended a workshop organised by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), concluded that people's average levels of BPA now exceed those that cause harm in laboratory animals.
For the past 8 years, the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to fund and conduct human embryonic stem cell research has been limited by Presidential actions.
Fortunately, through the combined support of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other US Government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and others, progress in developing new technologies that prevent HIV infection has been notable.
At the time he was head of America's National Centre for Human Genome Research, part of the country's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
As a result, few high-quality grant applications reach the National Institutes of Health (NIH) review panels, ensuring that funding remains low.
No one knows for sure, which is why the National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiated a study in 2008 to compare the two drugs.
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The FTTA allowed government laboratories like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enter into Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with the pharmaceutical industry.
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Before the change in administrations, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) requested a legal ruling about whether funding of research involving embryonic stem cells would violate the ban.
But under the glare of the gigantic Prempro trial--part of a set of studies, called the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--those benefits evaporated.
For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pioneer and New Innovator awards provide support for creative researchers with ideas for projects that have the potential for unusually high impact.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration on Aging (AoA), the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as well as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have also moved the HIV and aging agenda forward.
To this end, the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), established by America's National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2004, is measuring the levels of certain proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid of people who may have Alzheimer's or may go on to develop it.
In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of AIDS. Since that initial discovery, the U.S. government has led a global response based on scientific research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other U.S. government agencies.
It emerged in December that the authorities in the United States had recommended withholding from general publication the detailed results and methods of the study, as well as those of a second one led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (This also created transmissible strains, albeit less virulent ones.) Both studies had received grants from America's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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