By GoozNews 23 January 2011 One of the more intriguing historical anecdotes included in “The $800 Million Pill,” my history of government-led drug discovery, involved the government’s long-running effort to screen natural products for their cancer-fighting potential. The National Cancer Institute ran the program between 1958 and 1982. Agency-funded scientists, both in-house and at universities […]
U.S. government launches pharmaceutical division
By Mike Adams, Health Ranger 24 January 2011 (NaturalNews) The U.S. government has decided to enter the pharmaceutical business. Apparently, the drug companies aren’t coming out with new “breakthrough” drugs quickly enough, and now the U.S. government plans to spend taxpayer dollars conducting research on drugs which will be turned over to Big Pharma. Those […]
NIH moving into direct drug development
Published in Health News 23 January 2011 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) — The U.S. government is establishing a drug development center to take up the slack from fading private research, top officials say. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told The New York Times the pharmaceutical industry’s research productivity has been […]
NIH Funding Bioterror Vaccines
Posted in ‘Drug Discovery & Development 08 October 2010 The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced three new contracts to fund research on vaccines to protect against emerging infectious diseases and biological threats that could be used in a terror attack. Each project focuses on […]
NIH Experts Describe Influenza Vaccines of the Future
By: AS Fauchi and L Lambert 17 November 2010 In a review article appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, examine research under way to address the limitations of currently available influenza vaccines and develop more […]
