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Ahhthe sweet, sweet fragrance of freedom (or is that the Beijing smog?). Im at the airport now, and it appears that my saga is coming to a happy ending. Last night I went out and celebrated my new-found freedom with some new-found friends here in Beijing from my initial (but brief) stay in here Beijing. This morning, as I walked through the breakfast buffet at the Westin, I couldnt help but smile to myself as I picked up food. They were playing that song (I think thats what its called), didnt really pay attention to the lyrics, but the song, combined with my mood, made it all feel like I was at the end of a movie, and the credits were just about to roll. But as I enjoyed my five star hotel breakfast, I couldnt help but think of some of the staff at Hotel Quarantine, and how they are still going to be there for at least another month. They themselves dont even really know when theyre done. And that kinda sucks. If you at least have an end, there is hope, but their stay is indefinite until further notice. And while the Westin staff is unbelievable, I have to say that the staff at the Yanxiang Hotel were also superb, and made a crappy situation much more tolerable. Amazing in light of their own circumstances. So, if you or someone else you know is headed to Hotel Quarantine, remember to be extra nice to the awesome staff there, and give them a little extra room too.
Finally, I cant help but think that this could have all been avoided if they just scanned us before we got on the plane instead of after. If they found someone with a temperature, just send em home. That way they dont have to be quarantined halfway across the world, and none of us would need to ever be quarantined. Seems like that would save everyone involved a ton of time and money. But nobodys asked for my advice, and the cab driver on the way over didnt seem to care too much about what I was saying either.
Well, I will continue to post on this blog, but it will likely go back to what I originally intended it to be about Web x.0, product management, and other random musings that come into my head. Its been fun people (no it hasnt), but time for this geek to get on a plane and get back home.
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Basing on a simple 7-day diet, the cabbage soup diet is very restrictive. It is a low-fat, high-fiber, low-calorie diet, directed towards rapid weight loss.
The primary foods allowed throughout the diet include large quantities of cabbage soup (as much as possible, at least once a day), vegetables, fruit, and beef, but not all of these together, distributed day to day. Alcohol is particularly not allowed, only water and unsweetened fruit juices when suitable.
Like any other diet weight loss programs, the Cabbage Soup Diet also has its advantages and disadvantages that we should know.
The 7 Advantages of Cabbage Soup Diet
The advantages of this diet are as follows:
1. You loose more weight as you eat more cabbage.
2. You can eat as much as cabbage soup as you want throughout the diet.
3. Cabbage soup has high water content, and water has been a proven way to keep your self well hydrated at all times.
4. The diet is known to be high in fiber and less in calories compared to others.
5. Because of the soup's composition, you will not be left feeling hungry.
6. This soup will not strip meat from your diet, since you will still be allowed to eat beef during the diet.
7. The diet only lasts for seven days.
The 7 Disadvantages of Cabbage Soup Diet
On the other hand, are a few disadvantages regarding the cabbage soup diet and they are as follows:
1. A reported side effect of this diet is that it is supposed to give a headache to those who undergo it.
2. The Cabbage Soup Diet is only effective for weight loss during the first week. It is not meant for a long term diet, that is why people who undergo the diet need to transfer to another diet regimen.
3. The diet restricts other types of drinks other than water or unsweetened juices. Curbing your cravings for alcohol, sodas and milky drinks may be difficult.
4. Instead of loosing fat and water. The Cabbage Soup diet attacks your muscles and you end up loosing precious muscle tissue.
5. Due to the restricted amount of calories, you may feel low energy levels throughout the diet.
6. Unlimited cabbage may not sound unappealing, especially to those who basically do not like cabbages.
7. The diet lacks the vitamins and minerals necessary for the preservation of a healthy body.
This diet is only a quick fix type of diet and should not be taken for more than the recommended duration. If you are looking to loose more weight than just the few pounds shed with the 'Cabbage soup diet', it is recommended that you seek the help of professional dietitians.
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Learn how you can self-administer this simple therapy at home in 1 minute -- this includes the exact protocol and the sources where you can obtain the natural oxygenating substance which is the cornerstone of this therapy.
(Note: This natural substance has been given the GRAS designation - Generally Recognized As Safe -- by the FDA, and costs only 1½ cents a day to administer!) -- see pages 75-79
The philosophy behind oxygen therapy is simple: we all need oxygen for survival. Why is breathing oxygen so vital? Well, if our cells do not receive oxygen, they cannot produce energy. The benefits of oxygenation are numerous from rejuvenation and increased energy levels to any major chronic disease including depression or cancer. "We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of disease." - Dr. Stephen Levine.
You no longer need to be terrified that your poor health habits or the unhealthy lifestyle you've had in the past will come back to haunt you in the form of some awful disease. What's more, there's no longer a reason to worry that you will one day acquire a disease that runs in your family (like cancer, for instance). And you won't have to dread getting older because of the "inevitable" degenerative diseases that could plague you as you age.
When you finally realize that disease is nothing more than a condition that occurs when your body is oxygen deficient at the cellular level (and therefore an ideal habitat for disease microorganisms, viruses and pathogens) - you don't have to be scared of it anymore.
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It may surprise some people to learn that one of the best way to burn fat and lose weight is actually weight lifting and strength training. Walk into a gym, and take a look around, you’ll see several distinct groups – you’ll see that there are a group of people that consistently spend their entire workouts on the cardio machines – you know that the main thing on their minds is to burn off extra calories, lose weight, and burn fat. Below are some tips on designing a fat burn workouts program that will turn up your natural furnace, increase your metabolism, and help you lose weight and burn body fat.
While cardio workouts are great for weight loss, there’s a world of difference on how your perform those cardio workouts. Long cardio sessions at moderate pace may burn more calories during the workout session, but once you get off the cardio machine, you stop burning those calories. The calories burnt during the long cardio exercise do little to help with your overall weight loss.
On the other hand, short bursts of high intensity cardio for shorter duration may burn less calories during the workout session, but it will work to increase your metabolism, even well after you’ve finished your fat burn workout. This leads to more overall calories burnt, and makes it a much more effective fat burn workout. So the next time you head out for your cardio fat burn workouts, go for the shorter, but high intensity training sessions. Long duration cardio exercises also tends to generate a higher level of stress hormones such as cortisol – cortisol has been linked to weight gain, and is therefore counter-productive.
Cardio timing during the day also plays a factor on how effective your fat burning workout is. It is widely accepted that performing cardio training sessions first thing in the morning works best to burn body fat. When you wake up, your body has had a 8 to 10 hour fast, and your body glycogen levels are rather low. Performing cardio first thing in the morning will deplete your glycogen quickly and cause your body to mobilize fat due to the lack of glycogen. Performing an intense cardio session in the morning also elevates your metabolism over a long period of – this helps you burn more calories throughout the day. If you’re not already performing cardio first thing in the morning, consider making some changes to your schedule to fit in some cardio firs thing in the morning.
Don’t get stuck at wasting your precious time day-in, day-out on moderate pace cardio sessions that drag on for way too long. Instead, opt for shorter, high intensity cardio session that involves some type of interval training to boost your body’s fat burning capabilities. If you are looking for effective ways to help you burn fat, take a look at Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle program, which has been proven to help increase fat burn and lose weight.
Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is an effective fat burning system that shows you how to burn fat while your body builds lean muscle. This powerful fat loss system was designed by Tom Venuto, an expert in the field with nearly 2 decades of experience. He’s a lifetime natural bodybuilder, nutritionist, success coach and personal trainer. All of this experience has helped him create and formulate a fat burning system that is super easy for anyone to use regardless of their physical fitness level or previous experiences they may have had with unsuccessful fat burning programs.
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Severe head pain, nausea and visual or light sensitivity problems are some of the symptoms associated with migraine headaches. Slurred speech and temporary paralysis have also been frequently observed in severe cases. Botox for migraines had been shown to be a safe and effective treatment, actually relieving most if not all of the symptoms of migraines, in clinical studies conducted as early as 1999.
Research on the use of Botox for migraines was begun when doctors discovered that a number of patients receiving Botox injections for the treatment of deep wrinkles on the forehead stopped having migraine headaches or had significantly fewer migraine headaches since starting the injections. Complete recovery from migraine headaches was observed in about half of them and there was partial improvement in about a third.
Los Angeles plastic surgeon Dr. William Binder and three other doctors conducted a formal study in 1999. They divided 100 patients in to 3 groups. Patients who definitely had migraines composed the first group. Patients who probably had migraines went into the second group. The third group consisted of patients who did not have migraines. At the conclusion of the study, it was established that migraine headaches completely disappeared in about half of the patients while the severity and/or frequency of migraine headaches was reduced by half in about 37 per cent.
8 patients out of 13 who had acute migraines said that they experienced complete benefit within one or two hours. In addition, patients who reported that they no longer suffered from migraine headaches said that their symptoms had disappeared about four months after receiving Botox injections. Adverse effects were also reported in the use of Botox for migraines but these were minimal and comprised only slight bruising and temporary local pain caused by the injections.
Previous research had shown that by relaxing the muscles, botulinum toxin A injections can reduce tension type headaches. However, the principal cause of migraine is not tension. So the researchers were surprised that Botox had such a good effect in the case of migraines. The study proponents then concluded that Botox can not be said to be a cure, but Botox for migraines certainly helped relieve the symptoms, based on the results that were achieved.
Slightly different results were shown in other researches which were done more recently on the use of Botox for migraines. 18 out of 24 patients experienced four to six months of migraine relief following injections of Botox in a study conducted in 2000 by Dr. Richard Glogau, professor of dermatology at the University of California San Francisco. In a study conducted by Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Arizonas Dr. David Dodick in 2005, the frequency of migraine headaches in patients dropped from an average of 14 to only 6 a month after receiving Botox injections.
Although approved for the treatment of neurological disorders such as cervical dystonia (also known as spasmodic torticollis), blepharospasm, and strabismus, the medical use of Botox for migraines is not yet approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. However, since Botox is an effective therapy for certain neurological syndromes, there is a major indication that there is hope for relief from Botox in those who suffer migraines.
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Wichita State University is offering a free come and go workshop, Your Investment in Higher Education, from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 25, and 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, July 11, in Rhatigan Student Center.
Although reservations aren't required, space is limited, so visit http://www.wichita.edu/decision2009 or call (316) 978-3085 or (800) 362-2594 to reserve a place.
The workshop will look at the costs involved in providing a college education from every possible angle so participants can rest assured they are making a wise investment whether they've been laid off, had their job cut back or are just worried about the economy.
Members of Wichita State's offices of admissions, financial aid, housing and various other departments will be on hand to answer questions, share information about some of the numerous programs that make WSU special, provide brief academic counseling and walk you through the steps leading up to enrollment.
The workshop also will provide a look at the costs involved in attending a variety of schools in Kansas to help participants make the most informed decision for each family during these tough economic times whatever school that may be.
I know this can be both an exciting and challenging time for your family, and I'm confident that our faculty and staff can help point you in the right direction, said WSU President Don Beggs.
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This is very good news if you suffer from these illnesses. Because just as we can learn habits and behaviors which cause us to become highly-stressed, depressed or anxious, we can learn the habits and behaviors which stop these terrible illnesses in their tracks. And the more often we make use of them, we'll soon begin to perform them automatically and our mental health will benefit enormously. anxiety books are versatile as they are found in all parts and walks of life. It all depends on the way you take it
Many people who don't suffer from these illnesses often say to sufferers: 'Come on, snap out of it.' If only it was so easy! Should anyone say this to you, please forgive them as it's just a lack of understanding. It's very hard for people to understand how you're feeling if they haven't been there. There is a vast ocean of knowledge connected with anxiety books. What is included here can be considered a fraction of this knowledge!
Why are these illnesses on the rise? And why do some people become so ill through these illnesses, they can find it hard to function? Well they sure don't happen overnight! You don't suddenly wake up one morning and feel stressed or depressed. It's not like flicking on a light switch! And by the same rule, if you're suffering, you can't just wake up one morning, flick off the switch and say 'Great, I'm better now.'
You can do it too.
About the author:
Chris Green is the author of 'Conquering Stress', a special
program which will show you how to conquer stressful illnesses
such as depression, anxiety, panic and worry permanently and
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Russia is a country of unimaginable distance, stretching 11 time zones from Europe to the Pacific Ocean, with a population of only 140 million. According to World Bank criteria, Russia is a lower middle income country with almost 100% literacy rates, yet the average life expectancy at birth is 65.94 years. Much of Russias population lives in poverty, victims of a huge disparity between rich and poor. The elderly, disabled, children, and people living with HIV bear much of the poverty burden with poor access to services and discrimination.
The proportion of health budget to GDP is 5.4%, but there are no budget allocations for mental health and there is no information on expenditures on mental health care. The Ministry of Health has a mental health policy, which was developed in 1992, focusing on promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. A national mental health program was developed in 1995 and a specific program came up with recommendations on structural reorganization of psychiatric care in 1997, but there were limited funds to implement the recommendations. There has been a reform process across the country, focusing on lowering the number of beds in psychiatric institutions and creating outpatient clinics. Funding is the biggest barrier to reform.
According to the WHO Mental Health Atlas, mental health is part of the Russian primary health care system and some primary care providers do receive mental health training. A social rehabilitation system exists and there are community care facilities in place, including rehabilitation units in industrial firms and residential homes for around 125,000. Day care facilities are available for 15,000 people and home care is provided in some cases. There are 11.5 total psychiatric beds per 10,000 populations, with 10.1 of those in psychiatric hospitals.
Although the economic situation has improved in the past, this has not reached the most vulnerable, those who do not have access to suitable medical care. And despite the Russian governments increasing cash reserves, little investment in infrastructure (health or otherwise) has been initiated by the countrys leaders. The Russian people face health and mental health care challenges resulting from natural and manmade disasters, drug and alcohol abuse, street children, refugees, and the legacy of political psychiatry.
Natural and Manmade Disasters
Tragedies resulting from manmade and natural disasters produce victims in need of mental health care in every corner of the globe. Plane crashes, floods, forest fires, industrial accidents and acts of terrorism such as the Beslan school incident in 2004 are all examples of such disasters in Russia. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) oversees response to such disasters, but lacks a comprehensive strategy for carrying out mental health care in crisis situations. The International Federation of the Red Cross is working with the Russian Red Cross disaster management division to increase its capacity as related to integrating psychosocial support as a standard deployable component of disaster response. This program will be based on the experience gained in this field in the aftermath of the Beslan tragedy.
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Russia also faces a serious illegal drug problem where several million people are believed to be drug users. HIV has spread rapidly among injection drug users in Russia since the early 1990s and more than 10 percent of injection drug users are believed to be living with HIV. A 2007 Human Rights Watch Reports characterized treatment offered at state drug treatment clinics as very poor, concluding that drug addicts are left virtually to their own devices in their battle with this serious disease. The growth of HIV and Tuberculosis is epidemic and Russia occupies the second place in Europe with regard to rising rates of HIV infection, much of which can be contributed to illegal drug use.
It could be argued that alcoholism has always been Russias biggest health problem and some studies indicate that 30% of its men and 15% of women are addicted to alcohol.In 2007 it was estimated that 40,000 die annually from alcoholism and that every fifth crime in the country is committed under the influence of alcohol. Soviet leaders recognized this, but efforts at prohibition failed. Addiction was viewed as a crime under Soviet rule and people could lose their jobs or apartments or be locked up in a psychiatric hospital if they sought treatment. Though there are programs to treat alcoholism, there is not really a prevalent society of recovery in Russia, although Alcoholics Anonymous is active in the country. AA first came to Russia in 1986 and has spread throughout the country with over 300 groups in 100 cities and towns at last count. Drug and alcohol abuse is a critical and pressing mental health disaster that needs more attention from the Russian government.
Street Children
Street children refers to children under age 18 for whom the street (abandoned buildings, industrial wastelands) has become home and source of livelihood, and who are inadequately protected or supervised. Official statistics state that the number of homeless children is 700,000, but experts estimate the population of street children much higher in the realm of 1 to 3 million. A 2007 study found that 37% of street youth in Russia were infected with HIV.
This epidemic of homeless and diseased children is a crisis in Russia and outreach, prevention, access to care, and crisis intervention services need to be expanded to impact this tragedy. The non-profit organization, Doctors of the World, spearheads an effort to bring attention to the social, behavioral and medical factors contributing to this epidemic and are partnering with private foundations (Ford Foundation, MAC AIDS Fund), corporations (Johnson and Johnson), USAID, and local government and non-profit organizations to provide vital services to this population. More collaborative effort, capacity building, and funding are needed to truly make a difference in the lives of the majority of Russias street children.
Refugees
There is also a crisis situation resulting from the war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008. Although most of the original 30,000 refugees have returned to South Ossetia in Georgia, many remain living with relatives and in hospitals in the Vladikavkaz area in Russia. Russia has specific mental health programs for refugees and disaster victims. These programs, like the one assisting refugees in need of treatment to minimize the psychological effects of the war, are carried put by EMERCOM. The Russian Red Cross and the International Federation have both contributed financially to this program focused mainly on psychosocial support and the International Committee of the Red Cross is coordinating the operation. However the operation is scheduled to end on February 28th, 2009 so the need may go unmet in the future.
Political Psychiatry Past or Present?
During Soviet rule, psychiatry was used to treat and imprison healthy, sane people who spoke out against the government. Authorities used psychiatric hospitals as prisons and subjected patients to electric shock, electromagnetic torture, radiation torture, forced drugging that caused long lasting side effects. Such methods were employed to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally.
This practice supposedly ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but there have been reports in this decade about alleged imprisonment of people "inconvenient" for Russian authorities in psychiatric institutions. Larisa Arap, a Russian writer who spoke out against mistreatment of children in psychiatric clinics, was forcibly confined at a psychiatric clinic in 2007. There have been many reported cases of political psychology and the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights said in 2004 that people are being institutionalized in psychiatric hospitals unlawfully. Not only did punitive psychiatry exist during the Soviet period, and not only does it exist today, but unfortunately there are no grounds to hope that it will disappear in the foreseeable future.
There are approximately ten NGOs focusing on mental health advocacy, promotion, prevention and rehabilitation in Russia and religious organizations also provide social support. The Russian Orthodox Church is especially active in the drug abuse field and has several psychiatric hospitals in St. Petersburg. The Russian Red Cross is also very active in the mental health field. Of the six national priorities, two involve psychosocial components. The first goal involves the mitigation of the psychological consequences of disasters. The second goal is to increase the organizations capacity to provide psychosocial support by expanding this component from disaster response to other areas involving health care and social inclusion.
Within this brief overview, it is easily demonstrated how dire the situation in Russia is with regards to mental health care. Mental health is intertwined with all aspects of physical health, as well as social and behavioral issues. Many sectors of vulnerable populations with urgent needs overlap one another. For example, there are street children abusing drugs and alcohol infected with HIV and/or Tuberculosis. By addressing mental health issues along with one of the critical health issues, it is possible that the other issues could be resolved with minimal effort.
Looking at mental health challenges in Russia like natural and man-made disasters, drug and alcohol abuse, street children, refugees and the legacy of political psychiatry, it is apparent that Russia, like most other countries, is suffering from the absence of a strategic and effective national mental health plan. Although some steps have been taken to reform the psychiatric system, funding and capacity have not been provided to do so. Many local and international NGOs are active in the Russian mental health community, but it will really take a concerted effort by the Russian government to make a meaningful and significant positive impact on the mental health of its citizens. It is time for the Russian government to invest not only in natural resources like oil and gas, but in their most precious resource the Russian people.
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1. Do you think every citizen with high cholesterol is entitled to government-funded or some other cholesterol-lowering drug?
2. Do you think every man with erectile disfuntion is entitled to government-funded Viagra - or similar drug?
3. Do you think every citizen with blocked arteries - regardless of age - is entitled to a government funded bypass operation?
4. Do you think that there should be any limits on what healthcare products and procedures people are entitled to?
5. Do you believe that politicians can be trusted to place reasonable limits on healthcare? ie: will they have the courage and will to say to some people and some medications and procedures?
Thoughts.
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Her over all conclusion, despite the forty year war on cancer, most grants funded by the NIH on cancer will not break any new ground or make a difference in anybody’s life.
She then cited the example of one funded project that “asks whether a laboratory discovery involving colon cancer also applies to breast cancer. But even if it does apply, there is no treatment yet that exploits it.” So, who is going to see any positive result?
The NIH has spent $105 billion since President Richard M. Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971. The American Cancer Society, the largest private financier of cancer research, has spent about $3.4 billion on research grants since 1946. Despite all this money having been invested in the war on cancer there has been a shockingly small decline in the death rate from cancer, according to the FDA the gold standard for measuring success.
Some scientists view the grant system as if it were another jobs program, a way to keep research laboratories going year after year. Underlying this concept is an understanding that the labs focus will be on small projects unlikely to take significant steps toward curing cancer. One could almost say that cancer research labs need cancer to remain deadly so that they can remain in business!
However, I must say that in reality we do need to keep these labs open and functioning, other wise we will lose their expertise. Without these labs we would not be training the researchers of the future, but we need to train researchers who can make the next big step forward in curing cancer instead of researcher who reinvent the wheel. Currently the types of grants made and the training of these young researchers are as Dr. Robert C. Young, Chancellor at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia and Chairman of the Board of Scientific Advisors, an independent group that makes recommendations to the cancer institute, characterized as oriented more to obtaining funding than to curing cancer! I thought our goal was to cure cancer, I guess I am wrong.
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“These grants are not silly, but they are only likely to produce incremental progress,” said Dr. Young. The institute’s reviewers choose such projects because, with too little money to finance most proposals, they are timid about taking chances on ones that might not succeed. The problem, Dr. Young and others say, is that projects that could make a major difference in cancer prevention and treatment are all too often crowded out because they are too uncertain. In fact, it has become lore among cancer researchers that some game-changing discoveries involved projects deemed too unlikely to succeed and were therefore denied federal grants, forcing researchers to struggle mightily to continue.”
Kolata’s example took one transformative drug, “for breast cancer. It was based on a discovery by Dr. Dennis Slamon of the University of California, Los Angeles, that very aggressive breast cancers often have multiple copies of a particular protein, HER-2. That led to the development of herceptin, which blocks HER-2.
Now women with excess HER-2 proteins, who once had the worst breast cancer prognoses, have prognoses that are among the best. But when Dr. Slamon wanted to start this research, his grant was turned down. He succeeded only after the grateful wife of a patient helped him get money from Revlon, the cosmetics company.”
Even top federal cancer officials say the system needs to be changed.
“We have a system that works over all pretty well, and is very good at ruling out bad things — we don’t fund bad research,” said Dr. Raynard S. Kington, acting director of the National Institutes of Health, which includes the cancer institute. “But given that, we also recognize that the system probably provides disincentives to funding really transformative research.”
Not at all surprising, but the private NGO, The American Cancer Society follows a similarly cautious path. Last year, it awarded $124 million in new research grants, with some money coming from large donors but most from events like walkathons and memorial donations.
Dr. Otis W. Brawley, chief medical officer at the cancer society, has stated that he agrees that the entire cancer research effort is too cautious. “The problem in science is that the way you get ahead is by staying within narrow parameters and doing what other people are doing,” Dr. Brawley said. “No one wants to fund wild new ideas.” A statement like this from Dr. Brawley is scary, why has not he used his position to change this? Talking about it and doing something are two different items.
Some experienced scientists have found a way to offset the problem. They do chancy experiments by siphoning money from their other grants, but I believe that this is wrong. However, the bigger wrong is the system that forces researchers to be devious and deceitful with their funders.
The breath of fresh air in this funding problem is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program in the Department of Defense (CDMRP). In this program research proposals are scored up if they are high risk, but can make a significant difference in the field of cancer research. The CDMRP’s orientation could serve as an outstanding model for the American cancer Society and the NIH.
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