Heavy weather ahead for clinical research

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Health-care financing changes are hurting funding for clinical researchers, who may find themselves in an unhealthy rivalry with basic biomedical researchers for public funds. HMOs that take over the financing for academic hospitals are taking profits instead of putting them back into research.

Hospitals, University, University hospitals

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NIH launches the final push to sequence the genome

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The National Center for Human Genome Research at NIH is set to launch six grants for human genome-sequencing projects, totalling $60 million over three years. Director Francis Collins wants to move past the chromosome mapping stage and wants data to be published as quickly as possible.

Nucleotide sequence, Base sequence, Human genetics, Human Genome Project, United States. National Human Genome Research Institute

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Lobbyists seek to reslice NIH's pie

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Advocate groups for specific diseases claim that the National Institutes of Health's increasing budget is unfairly divided in favor of HIV and AIDS research. The American Heart Assn, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and Parkinson's Action Network have been particularly vocal.

Political activity, AIDS (Disease), AIDS research, American Heart Association, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

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