Without progress no funding

From progress to regression: biomedical research funding.

Despite great advances in health-related research and health care, major challenges remain regarding the causes and cures of many diseases; these may be overcome with further research. Our society is enthusiastic about fostering such investigations. However, available federal funds limit many such projects. Previously there have been sizable increases in the NIH budget, but because of the escal...

Progress Report No. 24

Introduction: motion without progress

The official end of Walter Scott’s often barely concealed anonymity as a novelist came with his putting his name to the ‘Introduction’ of the first volume of his Chronicles of the Canongate in 1827, where ‘The Author of Waverley’ and its successors finally dropped his mask and admitted what so many of his readers had long known. After admitting no obvious reason for his choice of remaining anon...

How AIDS funding strengthens health systems: progress in pharmaceutical management.

In recent years, new global initiatives responding to the AIDS crisis have dramatically affected-and often significantly improved-how developing countries procure, distribute, and manage pharmaceuticals. A number of developments related to treatment scale-up, initially focused on AIDS-related products, have created frameworks for widening access to medicines for other diseases that disproportio...

No psychiatry without psychopharmacology.