NIH labours to maintain excellence despite tight budget and staffing

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will receive a budgetary increase in FY 1993 of slightly more than 3%, marking an end to the era in which NIH could count on large annual boosts in funding. Since this 3% rise will not keep pace with inflation, NIH director Bernadine Healy is resorting to political strategy to obtain the reliable funding needed to continue the NIH's intramural research and grants for university research. However, problems such as the inability to lure senior researchers by offering competitive salaries may work against sustaining the intramural research.

United States. National Institutes of Health, Healy, Bernadine P.

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SW medical center, famous and favoured, is thriving

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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center won recognition for its excellence both as a medical school and as a research institution when two faculty members, Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein, received the Nobel Prize in 1985. Southwestern has grown remarkably since being founded in 1943, thanks largely to the able leadership of Donald Seldin and his emphasis on biomedical science as the core of medicine. Southwestern's plans for new campuses and buildings are supported enthusiastically by the local community.

Cover Story, Schools, Texas, Nobel laureates, Dallas, Texas, University of Texas (Dallas) Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas)

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Eat your broccoli (and brussels sprouts)

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Research indicating that a chemical in broccoli called sulforaphane prevents cancer by detoxifying carcinogens is impressive but insufficient to justify telling people that eating broccoli will invariably prevent cancer. The research, by The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Paul Talalay and colleagues, was published in the Mar 1992 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.' Inaccurate press reports of such research have obscured how little is actually known about how diet affects disease.

Health aspects, Reports, Prevention, Physiological aspects, Cancer, Broccoli, Diet, Carcinogenesis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (Periodical)

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