If a researcher wants to run a clinical trial on a Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) cancer drug, it's unlikely to happen if the company doesn't want to pay. (The National Institutes of Health funds relatively few trials.) Speaking can help raise an expert's profile among his peers.
Forbes.com has run a number of screens--sifting through biotech funds and biotech-heavy health care funds to separate those that are least risky from those that really go out on a limb.
Health care funds, as well as convertible and merger arbitrage hedge funds, fared the worst.
Health care funds and large-growth funds are also down 5% for the year, according to Morningstar.
To cut government spending and keep the government from going over the debt ceiling, the government will suspend some investments in pension and health benefit funds for federal workers beginning on Monday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a letter to congressional leaders.
It is also advocating greater disclosure of the health of pension funds to workers and investors.
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Both take active roles in the Reuben Foundation, which funds health care and educational causes.
Last week several regional health-insurance funds said they would put up premiums.
Rumors abound, particularly about the health of hedge funds, which have been forced to sell their holdings to meet heavy redemption requests from nervous investors.
The union's leader, Ron Gettelfinger, said that payments of billions of dollars into health-care funds for retired workers, due to be made by 2010, could be delayed.
Slowing growth and rising unemployment have already led to a collapse of tax revenues and a jump in welfare spending, creating yawning gaps in budgets at both federal and local level, as well as in public-health and pension funds.
So far, government prosecutors have mostly focused on the lower level contributors to the current financial meltdown, such as mortgage brokers who approved fraudulent applications, and some hedge-fund managers at Bear Stearns who allegedly misrepresented the health of their funds.
Health systems have taken various approaches such as becoming a Limited Partner in venture funds like Health Enterprise Partners.
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McConnell's strategy points us to a future where Republicans use the Obama health care reform to raise funds and win elections -- but where health care itself remains substantially intact.
Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm pledged extra funds to support an existing mental health information programme, but said boards were accountable for their performance in delivering services.
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This plan provides coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions with funds from health care reform.
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In Britain, the National Health Service currently only funds realistic limbs.
In other words, players could sacrifice more on the revenue split because they could win on safety issues (fewer contract practices, more funds into health benefits, etc.).
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Graduate students also are often already receiving living stipends for the duration of their programs, meaning that the school has already invested a significant amount of money into these students and cannot provide additional funds for health insurance.
One of the most successful funds is Vanguard Health Care, run by Edward Owens of Wellington Management.
Figures 4 and 5 show the rating landscape of all health care ETFs and mutual funds.
Our third requirement is portfolio diversification, so fine sector funds like Vanguard Health Care are excluded.
Investors need to tread carefully when considering health care ETFs and mutual funds.
And lastly, we exclude sector-specific funds, like health care, mining and real estate, some of which have done very well.
Amgen, Inc. (AMGN) is one of my favorite stocks held by health care ETFs and mutual funds and earns my very attractive rating.
Sarapta Therapeutics (SRPT) is one of my least favorite stocks held by health care ETFs and mutual funds and earns my very dangerous rating.
Clinton announced the creation of a dedicated AIDS vaccine research unit at the National Institutes of Health, although no additional funds have been earmarked for the research.
Venture capitalists, those veteran investors hired precisely because they could divine the high-tech future, didn't know either--that's why they are all already bobbing and weaving over the health of their rapidly maturing funds.
These funds are hugely important for the health of the U.S. financial sector and are a critical source of funds for new job creation and other forms of investment.
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Exceptions apply if you receive funds under the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program or the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.
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