...Karen L. Baird The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have both recently revised their policies regarding the inclusion of women in clinical trials. Pressured by women's health activists and members of Congress, the NIH has vastly improved its policies...

... . Asthma Genes Linked to Regions Unique to Different Racial and Ethnic Groups, NHLBI Study Shows . NIH press release available online at www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar97 . U.S. National Human Genomics Research Institute (NHGRI). 1996 . Prostate Cancer Gene Location Found on Chromosome 1 . Available online...

...Paul M. Wortman; Amiram Vinokur; Lee Sechrest The purpose of this evaluation study is to identify problems and suggest modifications in the NIH Consensus Development Program. The current program consists of three-day conferences in which experts assess medical technologies for issues of efficacy...

...Richard A. Rettig Victoria A. Harden, Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887–1937 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 274 pp. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 582 Journal of Health Politics, PoIicy and Law iation on the “dance...

..., and potentially expensive genome interpretations. These concerns should not inhibit the wide dissemination of this technology, as current efforts by the NIH and industry to expand the use of genome sequencing demonstrate. The ACA should be used as a tool to prevent disparities in access to genome information...

...Eileen Burgin Burton H. Singer and Carol D. Ryff, eds. Committee on Future Directions for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH. New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach . Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. 224 pp. $39.00 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press...

... Review Essay Burton H. Singer and Carol D. Ryff, eds. Committee on Future Directions for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH. New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. 224 pp. $39.00 cloth. What should priority research areas...

... Books Review Essay Burton H. Singer and Carol D. Ryff, eds. Committee on Future Directions for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH. New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. 224 pp...

... Books Review Essay Burton H. Singer and Carol D. Ryff, eds. Committee on Future Directions for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH. New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. 224 pp...

... and Carol D. Ryff, eds. Committee on Future Directions for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH. New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. 224 pp. $39.00 cloth. What should priority research areas be for the National Institutes of Health...

... within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), many advocates for the elderly perceive it as a great promise for the future. Others, less optimistic, see the institute with its broad mandate and meager funding as a pacifier for the public and for special-interest groups -a discouraging...

... Administrators 22(3):5-11. Harrison , Bennett . 1994 . Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility. New York: Basic Books. Healy , Bernadette . 1994 . Shattuck Lecture—NIH and the Bodies Politic. New England Journal of Medicine 330 ( 21 ): 1493 -1498...

.... Herguth. 1999 . Human Tests Halted; UIC Projects Suspended after Probe. Chicago Sun-Times , 28 August, 1 . Hansen, Jeff, and Thomas Spencer. 2000 . UAB Research Suspended: NIH Cites Problems with Review Board, Charges Numerous Flaws. Birmingham News , 21 January. Hilts, Philip J. 1998a...

... been common—most grantees and contractors had the option of keeping patent rights to inventions from federally funded work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense, which were the three largest research and development funders...

... Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 240 pp. $25.00 cloth. Amid the rancor of congressional debate over the federal budget, one government agency appears immune from political or fiscal attack: the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Even as Congress...

.... 1 However, agencies also experience similar politics when their primary mission is to distribute federal dollars. NIH is an example of an agency that experiences distributive politics (or, in Wilson's terminology, client politics). NIH uses general revenues to fund basic research that distributes...

... investigator in the Division of Intramural Research, Social and Behavioral Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and senior adviser to the director of the NHGRI on the societal implications of genomics. Bonham is a health care...

... until the 1930s, when direct federal sponsorship of basic research began to eme~geThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) grew out of the old federal Hygienic Laboratory; Congress authorized funds for cancer research under the newly created National Cancer Institute.36 Federal expenditures...

... Transplantation: Speakers' Presentations. Washington, DC: NIH. National Institutes of Health. 1983b . Liver Transplantation. NIH Consensus Development Conference Summary 4 ( 7 ). O'Brien , B. J. , M. J. Buxton, and B. A. Ferguson. 1987 . Measuring the Effectiveness of Heart Transplant Programmes...

... in promoting the development of the National Institutes of Health. Yet the NIH, transformed again in the period from 1945 through 1949, became the instrument for carrying out much of the agenda of Bush and his colleagues. Surely this represents a discontinuity in need of careful historical...