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Never let a crisis . . . We'd Have An Ebola Vaccine If Not For Budget Cuts
Posted on 10/13/14 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 10/13/14 at 2:26 pm
Never let a crisis go to waste!
Meanwhile the NIH has been spending its "desperately limited" funds to "Study Why Lesbians Are Fat" . . .
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HuffPost
Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director
by Sam Stein
Updated: 10/13/2014 4 hours ago
BETHESDA, Md. -- As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, one of the country's top health officials says a vaccine likely would have already been discovered were it not for budget cuts.
Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has "slowed down" research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases. As a result, he said, the international community has been left playing catch-up on a potentially avoidable humanitarian catastrophe.
"NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,'" Collins told The Huffington Post on Friday. "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready."
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Meanwhile the NIH has been spending its "desperately limited" funds to "Study Why Lesbians Are Fat" . . .
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Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat
March 11, 2013 - 9:09 PM
By Elizabeth Harrington
The NIH is funding studies to determine why nearly three-quarters of adult lesbians are overweight or obese, compared to half of heterosexual women. (AP Photo)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance."
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., has received two grants administered by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the relationship between sexual orientation and obesity.
“Obesity is one of the most critical public health issues affecting the U.S. today,” the description of the grant reads. “Racial and socioeconomic disparities in the determinants, distribution, and consequences of obesity are receiving increasing attention.”
“[H]owever, one area that is only beginning to be recognized is the striking interplay of gender and sexual orientation in obesity disparities,” it states. “It is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, with it continues.
“In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.”
The investigators say there has been “almost no” research devoted to this disparity, and they have set out to find the biological, psychological, and social factors behind it.
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Posted on 10/13/14 at 2:28 pm to NC_Tigah
I wish the NIH could find a cure for my 80HD.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 2:32 pm to LSURussian
If the govt. only had more money we'd have a cure for cancer, free healthcare, a train from NO to BR, a 58 inch HD TV with satellite in each home, and all the pizza you can eat.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 2:35 pm to NC_Tigah
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“In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.”
Well, that's because of AIDS, duh.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:24 pm to NC_Tigah
Duh!
Everyone knows that higher taxes can cure Ebola, AIDS and solve climate change.
Everyone knows that higher taxes can cure Ebola, AIDS and solve climate change.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:41 pm to NC_Tigah
Yep, this from an ideology the demonizes the pharmaceutical industry any chance they get.
I guess we should look to the labor and teacher unions for a cure for this dreaded virus.
I guess we should look to the labor and teacher unions for a cure for this dreaded virus.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:42 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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“In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.”
Well, that's because of AIDS, duh.
Thin, single and neat.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:43 pm to TrueTiger
We have cut funding to quite a few research programs over the last decade. Yes, at some point you cannot throw more money at a problem to make it go away. But, you can also throw too little money at a problem to make it go away.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 5:11 pm to ruzil
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this from an ideology the demonizes the pharmaceutical industry any chance they get.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 5:28 pm to NC_Tigah
I was wondering what had happened to the democrats promise for a cure to Christopher Reeves' paralysis.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 6:02 pm to Lakeboy7
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this from an ideology the demonizes the pharmaceutical industry any chance they get.
Tell me, how long have you worked in the pharma industry?
Posted on 10/13/14 at 6:14 pm to ruzil
If you think unions, of any stripe, have the power of big pharma I cant help you. Pharma, defense contractors and big oil own every politician in Washington DC.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 6:22 pm to NC_Tigah
So you think a $1.5 million study on obesity would make up for a 23% cut in a $23 billion budget such that there would be ample money to develop vaccines such as was needed here?
Has Rush Limbaugh hacked your computer?
For a week we've heard its Obama's fault because one person in the entire world outside of Africa has died from Ebola and now you're saying the NIH is taking advantage of a crisis.
Look no further than your right wing cohorts my friend. They have gladly politicized this entire "crisis".
One death on 6 continents and we've got a crisis on our hands like we've never seen before!!!!!!!
Has Rush Limbaugh hacked your computer?
For a week we've heard its Obama's fault because one person in the entire world outside of Africa has died from Ebola and now you're saying the NIH is taking advantage of a crisis.
Look no further than your right wing cohorts my friend. They have gladly politicized this entire "crisis".
One death on 6 continents and we've got a crisis on our hands like we've never seen before!!!!!!!
Posted on 10/13/14 at 6:52 pm to NC_Tigah
This is assuming a lot. The structure and nature of ebola make it particularly difficult to adequately vaccinate against. There is no guarantee at all that more time and money would have led to a vaccine by now.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 6:58 pm to Lakeboy7
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If you think unions, of any stripe, have the power of big pharma I cant help you. Pharma, defense contractors and big oil own every politician in Washington DC.
Don't assume I need your help, I don't.
Unions got your boy elected and helped to stack the senate for him as well. The other culprits you mentioned sprinkle their money across both aisles, the unions on the other hand use the money confiscated from their not so voluntary membership, to bribe democrat politicians.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 8:46 pm to Roger Klarvin
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We'd Have An Ebola Vaccine If Not For Budget Cuts
quote:No Kidding!
This is assuming a lot. The structure and nature of ebola make it particularly difficult to adequately vaccinate against.
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