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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Funding for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and spinal cord injury research is not keeping up with the times, scientists say.
Johns Hopkins University and seven other institutions petitioned Congress not to let biomedical research funding stagnate in a 21-page report, “Within Our Grasp — Or Slipping Away? Assuring a New Era of Scientific and Medical Progress,” released Monday.
They argued years of stagnant budgets for the National Institutes of Health interrupted promising research and drove young investigators into other careers.
“Warning bells should be sounding loudly in Congress and among the public,” said Dr. Edward Miller, Hopkins dean and CEO.
“The world’s premier biomedical research engine is at risk.”
Currently, eight of 10 research grant applications are going unfunded, according to the report, and principal investigators are spending more time raising funds instead of conducting research.
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Your alcohol facts are not quite straight. You mentioned Avant Hand Sanitizer- it has denatured alcohol. The denaturing process adds a bitter agent- it make sit taste horrible- definitely not a vodka type drink. That is why alcohol is denatured- to avoid abuse like this. It will likely make you vomit.
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Former Minneapolis Fire Chief: A First Responder in I-35W Bridge Collapse; Coordinates Helping Hand Contribution of Soapopular Hand Sanitizers For EMS Workers For Immediate Release Minneapolis, MN, Aug 8, 2007-- Former Minneapolis Fire Department Chief Bonnie Bleskachek, an embattled hero to many in the Minneapolis community, hasn't allowed recent personal controversy to stand in the way of helping Minnesota citizens in times of crisis. Since the August 1 catastrophe first occurred, Bleskachek has been working tirelessly by coordinating volunteer and emergency supply logistics, and she was the first to respond to an unsolicited call from a Connecticut company offering to contribute a shipment of Soapopular, a new, alcohol-free hand sanitizer, for emergency workers at the disaster scene.
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Hand-Sanitizer=Alcohol Poisoning.. As inane as the subject might seam, the exponential growth in the use of hand sanitizer products over the past few years has lead to an ever-increasing number of alcohol-poisoning instances--and too many within school/educational settings. Most recent report was two weeks ago in Hartford CT, where second grader, overloaded her hands from a Purell bottle on her teachers desk ,then licked it off--and was soon rushed to Yale University Hospital and diagnosed with alchohol poisoning. Thank goodness that some new manufacturers, including Soapopular--which offers a full line of Alcohol-FREE hand sanitizing products, are now getting retailers to put their products on their shelves. Soapopular, which is Canada's leading brand in the alcohol-free segment, made its debut last week here in the US.
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