Tag Archives: National Institutes of Health

AIDS: ARV Optimism Tempered by Home Truths

By Jill Wechsler | Published: August 1, 2012
The prospect that antiretroviral drugs could prevent HIV infection in high-risk populations was the big news emerging from last month’s International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC. But the news raises the tricky ethical question of whether the US should spend $11,000 per patient to keep uninfected individuals healthy, when funds are lacking to provide life-saving treatment [...]
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New NIH Leader Backs Personalized Medicine

By Jill Wechsler | Published: July 22, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife No one was surprised last month when the White House nominated world-famous geneticist Francis Collins for the top job at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The driving force behind NIH’s Human Genome Project for 15 years, Collins is experienced in managing large research projects and big budgets and in [...]
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