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On the recordJuly 23, 2019
all of the NIH Institutes have been asked to come up with the most creative possible ideas that we could use to approach this epidemic of opioid overdose and death
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Francis Collins
Pennsylvania

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Collins discusses NIH's efforts to combat the opioid crisis.

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Cystic fibrosis is a wonderful example of how knowing the molecular basis of a disease can get you to a point with a great deal of hard work to a targeted therapeutic.

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the worst thing you can do, I think, to biomedical research is to create an area of uncertainty, of ups and down, of a roller coaster.

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Let me remind you of the last sentence of that Gettysburg Address: 'that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.'

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Mar 27, 2023

Hi, Tony and Cliff. This proposal from three fringe epidemiologists... There needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises.

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