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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 1999;281:1158-1159.

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Washington—Doubling dollars for diabetes research is part of a comprehensive strategic research plan aimed at speeding progress in understanding the causes of the disease. The plan is part of a report sent to the US Congress by the Diabetes Research Working Group, a bipartisan congressionally mandated body. It lays out a number of opportunities for making progress toward understanding, treating, and, ultimately, preventing diabetes.

To fund the effort, the plan recommends that Congress appropriate $827 million for the coming fiscal year for diabetes research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and double the amount to $1.6 billion by 2004. Diabetes research at the NIH is currently funded at $443 million.

The price tag for diabetes is $105 billion annually, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), which, along with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, has strongly backed the working group's proposals. The ADA said it made . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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