Impact of Proposed Budget on Health Research: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session : Special Hearing, Nondepartmental WitnessesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 66 pages |
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ADAMHA administration ALLAN BROMLEY Alzheimer's disease American Heart Association awards baby boomers BASIC BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH biomedical research Blood Institute brain BUTLER cardiovascular disease Chairman cholesterol cholesterol research clinical trials commitment committee competing grants concerned conduct Congress death Director disorders dollars drug equipment Federal fiscal flexibility funding GEORGE PALADE geriatrics going Gramm-Rudman GUILLEMIN heart disease hormones impact important increase indirect cost Institute on Aging Institutes of Health investment Jonas Salk laboratories leadership medical research medicine mental illness million National Cancer Institute National Institute NHLBI NIH budget NIMH number of grants number of research opportunities PALADE Pardes percent polio present President President's budget problems proposed budget recommended reduce research centers research grants research projects research training ROGER GUILLEMIN Salk Institute scientific scientists Senator HATFIELD society stability STATEMENT OF DR subcommittee Thank THEODORE COOPER Thier UNIVERSITIES young
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Page 13 - Brookdale Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development and Chairman of the Gerald and May Ellen Hitter Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine...
Page 29 - ... greatest effectiveness in the use of research funds, given its diverse research funding mechanisms. We urge ADAMHA to continue to use Its multiple support mechanisms In recognition of the many ways In which excellent research can be organized. The Ad Hoc Group proposal for FY 1987 provides for • necessary expansion In the level of competing and non-competing research project grants with full funding at study section-recommended levels (approximately $243 million). • critical growth in research...
Page 25 - States, is under the supervision of Dr. Nolan DC Lewis, Executive Officer of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital. Dr. George E. Daniels, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, has been appointed Chief of the Psychosomatic Service.
Page 2 - NIH to become president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences.
Page 27 - Demonstrated that the anti-convulsant Tegretol is effective in treating and preventing episodes of manic depressive illness, important both because it is particularly effective in people unable to tolerate or otherwise unable to utilize lithium and because it has opened up the potential similarity of psychoblological mechanisms surrounding manic depression and seizure disorders.
Page 10 - Agency managers and administrators should explore such initiatives with government science-funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and with major private foundations.
Page 27 - ... of investigators can interact and develop focused programs of research on mental disorders, including those affecting children and the elderly. We are grateful for your interest and urge your Subcommittee to act prudently and reject this illadvised proposal. These reductions I have outlined are damaging in themselves, but even more so when held up to the light of the present burgeoning opportunities for improved, cost effective treatments. We feel that an explosion of research on the brain, one...
Page 2 - From 1975 to 1980 he was president of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences...
Page 30 - What lesson is taught those physicians and others considering a career in research into these illnesses? For the former, it is a reaffirmation of the stigma attached to mental illness or addictive disorders. For the latter, it is a confirmation that the Nation's research commitment does not lie in this field, and entering the field is folly.
Page 2 - Columbia University, and a former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr.