Anyway, you look at it, autism is almost epidemic right now.

If Congress were to require that all NIH-funded research articles be deposited in the PubMed Central Database, how would that improve scientists' ability to conduct research?

There's some good stuff in here.

Well, that's all well and good. I hope you don't mind if I remain skeptical.

My gosh, if you could develop a universal vaccine, that would be the answer to everything.

Do you think we're putting enough resources into that on the balance of things? This is very promising.

We ought to look--we ought to just see if there's some suggestions out there.

I was disappointed to see in your budget request that your plans cut the funding for the centers by $1.7 million for a total of $72.3 million.

We wrote into law certain guidelines, put it right into the law.

It's interesting, because you know, I've been interested in complementary and alternative medicine for a long time.

Some people have different rates of metabolism. People have to exercise and eat less than other people in order not to become obese.

Anything else, Dr. Collins, about gene therapy--what was that dog's name?

We don't know how many are in each State. We just know there's something going on there, right?

What would you think about that? I've never talked to Senator Stevens about this but this idea of having advance directives? People don't. They just don't think about it. Maybe when people get on Medicare that ought to be a part of when…

Pancreatic cancer is so bad because there's no early detection.

How certain are you? I mean, what's the success rate if you had 100 people who became symptomatic with anthrax and you gave them this vaccine? What's the survival rate?

I'm still concerned about that.

Out of $637 million?