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'The report has the potential, if implemented appropriately, to make a real difference in AIDS research,' Dr. Paul said in an interview. He said he would work with the 24 directors of the health agency's constituent institutes to put the thrust of the panel's recommendations into place as quickly as possible because 'we're facing a medical emergency' in AIDS. The panel has worked with the support of Dr. Paul. 'I credit Bill Paul tremendously for having sponsored this study and having opened up the whole program to a careful look,' said Dr. David Baltimore of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Baltimore, a member of the panel, charactrized the report as 'a mid-course correction' of the kind required in 'any program that has ramped up rapidly.' Dr. Paul said the report in no way was directed as criticism of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the N.I.H. institute most directly involved in AIDS research, and who has been a world leader in AIDS research since the disease was discovered in 1981. The field is now maturing, the report is a blueprint for restructuring N.I.H.'s AIDS research program, and 'it is time to move forward,' he said.

The overnment's $1.4 billion AIDS research program lacks focus, is uncoordinated and needs a major overhaul to attract new scientific talent and spur novel and imaginative ideas, a government-appointed panel said in a report issued Wednesday. But the panel of 114 leading scientists and representatives of academia, drug companies, community organizations and AIDS advocates rejected the idea of an institute devoted specifically to AIDS. Although 15 years of AIDS research have brought impressive gains, the program needs more on-going scientific oversight and review by nongovernment scientists, the panel said

Dr. [Julian Webb]'s team and one headed by Dr. Jane Fothergill of St. Mary's Hospital concluded from investigating the epidemic that high counts of grass pollen and thunderstorm conditions combined to affect allergy-prone people

The government's $1.4 billion AIDS research program lacks focus, is uncoordinated and needs a major overhaul to attract new scientific talent and spur novel and imaginative ideas, a government-appointed panel said in a report issued Wednesday. But the panel of 114 leading scientists and representatives of academia, drug companies, community organizations and AIDS advocates rejected the idea of an institute devoted specifically to AIDS. The panel urged development of a better information system to track the entire portfolio of money that the National Institutes of Health, the government's chief research center, spends on AIDS research at its headquarters in Bethesda, Md., and elsewhere. The United States pays for 85 percent of all public-sector AIDS research in the world, and the driving force is the NIH

The government's $1.4 billion AIDS research program lacks focus, is uncoordinated and needs a major overhaul to attract new scientific talent and spur novel and imaginative ideas, a government-appointed panel said in a report issued Wednesday. But the panel of 114 leading scientists and representatives of academia, drug companies, community organizations and AIDS advocates rejected the idea of an institute devoted specifically to AIDS. The panel urged development of a better information system to track the money that the National Institutes of Health, the government's chief research center, spends on AIDS research at its headquarters in Bethesda, Md. and elsewhere. The United States pays for 85 percent of all public sector AIDS research in the world, and the driving force is the NIH

Following a severe thunderstorm in London in June 1994, 640 asthmatics swamped 12 emergency rooms. Two reports of the epidemic, published in the Mar 9, 1996 issue of the British Medical Journal, add to a small number documenting unusually large numbers of asthmatic cases after thunderstorms. The relationship between weather and asthma is discussed

Bolts of thunder and lightning struck. Wind gusts scattered grass pollen over a wide area. Many people immediately began wheezing and having difficulty breathing from asthmatic attacks. Emergency rooms were swamped with 10 times the usual number of asthmatics

Federal health officials reported a rare case last week of an individual with AIDS who persistently tested negative for the AIDS virus. The man, who lives in Utah, was a longtime blood plasma donor, but an investigation found no evidence that his plasma had infected anyone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its weekly report. The report comes at a time when the Food and Drug Administration is about to license a new test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, that differs substantially from the standard one that has been used to screen all blood donations since 1985. If the new test had been available earlier, it probably would have detected the man's HIV infection, said officials with the centers. In August the FDA recommended that blood banks supplement the standard test with the new test within 90 days of its licensing. The new test detects the p24 antigen, or protein, in HIV. The standard test detects antibodies that the immune system produces in response to HIV infection, and has been enormously successful in preventing transfusion-associated AIDS

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City has been fined $12,000, the maximum allowed by state law, in a case in which a surgeon operated on the wrong side of a patient's brain, officials of the State Health Department and the center said on Mar 8, 1996

In its weekly report on Mar 7, 1996, the CDC described a rare case of an individual with AIDS who persistently tested negative for HIV. The report comes at a time when the FDA is about to license a new HIV test that differs substantially from the standard one that has been used to screen blood donoations since 1985, and CDC officials say the new test would have detected the man's HIV infection