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Article: Funding medical research and drug development.
- Article from:
- AIDS Treatment News
- Article date:
- January 25, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 John S. James. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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For improving medical research, the place to start is to ask researchers what problems they face when they are trying to get important work done. Remember that often they cannot be activists or try to improve the system, because they must protect relationships with those who control their resources. Someone else must do the reform.
One of the greatest problems holding up medical research and development is the difficulty of getting the first human experience with promising new ideas. What usually happens is that academic researchers develop potential treatment approaches, often with Federal funding. They publish one or more papers in scientific journals. Then ...