Re: News-Parkinson's Money Doesn't Add Up

[janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all

At 10:37 1999/06/30 -0400, judith wrote, in part:
>June 30, 1999
>
>Parkinson's Money Doesn't Add Up, Group Says
>
>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Parkinson's disease activists accused the
>National Institutes of Health (NIH) Tuesday of failing to spend money
>allocated for research into the disease.
>
>They said an investigation of the budget at the NIH showed that of every
>$4 allegedly spent on Parkinson's by the National Institute of
>Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), $1, or 25 percent, is spent
>on research that will not benefit patients with Parkinson's.
>
>``Put simply, the numbers just don't add up and we'd like to know why,''
>Parkinson's Action Network president Joan Samuelson said in a statement.
>
>The group and four Democratic members of Congress -- Sen. Paul Wellstone
>of Minnesota, and Reps. Lane Evans of Illinois, Carolyn Maloney of New York
>and Mark Udall of Colorado -- sent a letter to NIH director Dr.
>Harold Varmus asking for an explanation.
>
>They also demanded that Varmus ensure the NIH spend the full allocated
>$100 million for Parkinson's research...


go Joan Samuelson!
you are one of my heroes!

janet

janet paterson
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