Hughes woos future MDs by offering space at bench

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The Research Scholars Program, conducted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Bethesda, MD, for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is meant to persuade more medical students to pursue careers in research after becoming physicians. The program, which now includes 230 participants and which has grown due to its popularity, grants students a year-long sabbatical in which to carry out research at an NIH laboratory. HHMI believes that preparing research-minded physicians is crucial to further progress in understanding health and disease.

Medical students, Training, Curricula, Study and teaching, Medical research, United States. National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Congress supports breast cancer research by taking $210 million from military

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Congress transferred $210 million from the defense budget to research on breast cancer in Oct 1992. This is the first time that the Pentagon's budget has been drawn upon to pay for civilian research and may also be the first actual payment of the long-anticipated 'peace dividend' from the Cold War's end. However, the new appropriation is also an instance of 'earmarking,' the government's habit of lavishing money on particular diseases that some critics say is a wasteful use of limited research funds.

Laws, regulations and rules, Social policy, Breast cancer, United States. Congress, Defense spending, Federal aid to medical research, Medical research assistance

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