'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Some of the toughest sequester spending decisions involve taxpayer-financed research, where funding today can produce huge benefits tomorrow — but can the government really afford to spend $227,437 to study pictures of animals in National Geographic magazines?
Better cancer drugs that zero in on a tumor with fewer side effects. A universal flu vaccine that could fight every strain of influenza without needing a yearly shot.
Better cancer drugs that zero in on a tumor with fewer side effects. A universal flu vaccine that could fight every strain of influenza without needing a yearly shot.
A federal appeals court on Friday refused to order the Obama administration to stop funding embryonic stem cell research, despite complaints the work relies on destroyed human embryos.
Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease _ by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.
The Obama administration adopts a landmark national strategy to fight Alzheimer's on Tuesday, setting the clock ticking toward a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.
Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease _ by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.
The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.
The Obama administration declared Alzheimer's one of the country's biggest health challenges on Tuesday, adopting a national strategy that sets the clock ticking toward better treatments by 2025 _ along with help for suffering families today.
Three pharmaceutical giants are unlocking their freezers to see if government-funded scientists can reinvent some of their old drugs.
The Obama administration is increasing spending on Alzheimer's research _ planning to surpass half a billion dollars next year _ as part of a quest to find effective treatments for the brain-destroying disease by 2025.
The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.
The government on Thursday said it would adopt strict new limits on using chimpanzees in medical research, after a prestigious scientific group recommended that experiments with humans' closest relative be done only as a last resort.
Days in the laboratory are numbered for chimpanzees, humans' closest relative.
The government says it will accept strict new limits on using chimpanzees in medical research, after a prestigious scientific group said that experiments with humans' closest relative should be a last resort.
The NIH, the leading funder of biomedical research, will lose $1.6 billion this year, about 5.1 percent of its budget, if automatic cuts go through next month, Dr. Collins said.
"We're in this amazing revolution," Dr. Collins added.
