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Keywords: Costs and Cost Analysis ; *National Institutes of Health (U.S.) ; *Research Support as Topic ; United States

Keywords: Advisory Committees ; Containment of Biohazards ; Ethics Committees, Research ; Federal Government ; Genetic Diseases, Inborn ; *Genetic Engineering ; Government Regulation ; Judicial Role ; Jurisprudence ; *National Institutes of Health (U.S.) ; United States ; Administration, the first authorized experiments in human gene therapy are ; expected to begin sometime in 1985. Anticipating approval, the congressional ; Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), at the request of then Representative ; Albert Gore, Jr. (D-Tenn), compiled a report on the scientific and ethical issues ; involved. OTA found no unique ethical obstacles to somatic cell therapy if ; conducted safely and with a reasonable expectation of efficacy. It reached no ; agreement concerning the necessity, feasibility, or ethical acceptability of ; germline therapy, and recommended further evaluation and public discussion.

Keywords: *Biological Warfare ; Federal Government ; Government Regulation ; *Laboratories ; Research ; United States ; devoted to testing highly infectious, lethal biological agents in aerosol sprays. ; The proposed $1.4 million laboratory is a small part of an ongoing effort to ; modernize and expand chemical and biological facilities at Dugway Proving Ground. ; Several eminent biologists who reviewed the Pentagon's proposal at the request of ; Science are concerned that the facility will eventually be used to develop ; prohibited offensive weapons, particularly genetically modified pathogens of ; enhanced virulence and antibiotic resistance, though some scientists think the ; danger can be averted through surveillance by an independant panel. The Pentagon ; denies that such development is planned and claims that the facility is urgently ; needed to test defensive military equipment.

Keywords: *Environmental Pollution ; *Government Agencies ; Humans ; Legislation as Topic ; Leukemia/chemically induced ; Risk ; United States ; *United States Environmental Protection Agency

Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*economics ; Humans ; *National Institutes of Health (U.S.) ; Neoplasms/*economics ; Politics ; *Research Support as Topic ; United States

Keywords: Government Agencies ; National Institutes of Health (U.S.) ; Politics ; Research Support as Topic/*legislation & jurisprudence ; *Social Sciences ; United States

Keywords: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)/*organization & administration ; Research Support as Topic ; United States

Keywords: Federal Government ; *Genetic Engineering ; *Government Regulation ; Judicial Role ; *Jurisprudence ; *National Institutes of Health (U.S.) ; United States ; of genetically engineered bacteria, the National Institutes of Health will ; conduct the simpler of two ecological analyses required by the National ; Environmental Policy Act on three proposed experiments. In May 1984 a federal ; district court ruling halted a University of California field test pending a ; decision on Rifkin's 1983 suit, which alleged that NIH had violated the Act by ; approving experiments without studying the ecological consequences. Still to be ; decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals is whether NIH must also issue full-scale ; environmental impact statements.

Keywords: History, 19th Century ; History, 20th Century ; Microscopy/*history ; Military Medicine/history ; National Library of Medicine (U.S.)/*history ; United States

Keywords: Female ; Humans ; Medroxyprogesterone/*analogs & derivatives/toxicity ; Medroxyprogesterone Acetate ; Risk ; United States ; United States Food and Drug Administration