May 30, 2000
NIH Conquers 'Love Bug' Computer Worm
Fauci Attributes Success
NIGMS Launches U.S. Savings Bonds Drive
President Recognizes Budding Researchers
Inaugural Nealon
Merchant Is New
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Where To, Now? By Carla Garnett
Flashback to 1990. It was a busy year in medical science, and at
NIH in particular. In between permanent directors that year with the
threat of a federal furlough looming, NIH was stormed that spring
by public demonstrations first animal rights activists, then
AIDS activists marched on campus. New therapies for stroke and
spinal cord injury were announced, new approaches to treating
epilepsy and colon cancer were trumpeted, and the first-ever human
gene therapy trial was launched. An effort to reduce the nation's
blood cholesterol levels was begun, and HIV was beginning to
spread disproportionately among women and in the minority
community.
Fire Crew Rescues Woman Aboard Subway By Rich McManus
NIH firefighters responded to a call for a "cardiac
arrest CPR in progress" during morning rush hour on Apr.
20 and were able to restore a pulse to a woman who had suffered a
heart attack aboard a Metro subway car at the Medical Center
Metro station. |