Stealing data obtained through the NIH peer review process is the most egregious of the cluster of rogue behaviors revealed through ongoing investigations of diversion of intellectual property, NIH Director Francis Collins said in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee April 11.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
