French research budget wins increase, but few new posts

Implementing New Regulation Promotes Health but May Increase Inequality

R&D budget: more wins than losses.

John Abelson Frederick W. Alt Don L. Anderson Michael Ashburner Stephen J. Benkovic David E. Bloom Floyd E. Bloom Piet Borst Michael S. Brown Henry R. Bourne James J. Bull Kathryn Calame C. Thomas Caskey Dennis W. Choi John M. Coffin Paul J. Crutzen Robert Desimone Nicole Le Douarin Bruce F. Eldridge Paul T. Englund Richard G. Fairbanks Douglas T. Fearon Harry A. Fozzard K. Friedrich Theodore H...

Proposed NIH budget increase too small to meet research needs.

I n an era of supposed budget surpluses and debt reduction, most researchers in the field of biomedical science had anticipated that the planned doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health by the year 2003 would remain on track. However, after the State of the Union address by President Clinton, most were chagrined to realize that he proposed to increase the NIH budget by just ...

Slow but steady wins the drug race

Without the SNF-6 acetylcholine transporter (bottom) mutant muscles fall apart. K im /M ac m ill an they are mutant for various members of the dystrophinglycoprotein complex (DGC), which links intracellular actin to extracellular laminin. But now, Hongkyun Kim, Steven McIntire (University of California, San Francisco, CA), and colleagues suggest that loss of the DGC results in loss of an associ...

Ghostwriting Revisited: New Perspectives but Few Solutions in Sight

Two years ago, in an editorial [1] sparked by the revelations from PLoS Medicine and The New York Times’ intervention in litigation relating to Prempro [2], we wrote that ‘‘the story told in these documents amounts to one of the most compelling expositions ever seen of the systematic manipulation and abuse of scholarly publishing by the pharmaceutical industry and its commercial partners in the...