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Physician organizations urge Secretary Thompson to defend NIH review process
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 7th, 2003
In light of growing controversy that has emerged over congressional scrutiny of certain grants funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson calling on him to support the public health value of research and to defend the integrity of the peer-review process that funds federal research grants.
While the level of government involvement remains unclear, more than 150 research grants on controversial but important public health issues, mainly dealing with HIV prevention and sexual behavior, have been...
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