C-3707 (C1). Dr. Frederick W. Gunz. North Canterbury Hospital Board, Christ- Incidence and etiology of leukemia in New Zeachurch, New Zealand. $4,200 land. C-3338(C1).-- Dr. Pablo Mori-Chavez.. PERU Universidad Nacional Mayor de San The effect of high altitude on neoplastic growth. $12,500 Evaluation of saline therapy in thermal burns. 19,880 GUATEMALA Institute of Nutrition of Central America Dietary factors in kwashiorkor. and Panama, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America. Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America. Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America. $27, 750 Interrelations between malnutrition and diarrhea. 25,000 Comparative study of atherosclerosis in population groups with widely different dietary and other habits. 32, 959 PANAMA E-1251 (C2). E-1941 (C1). Dr. Marshall Hertig. Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, Panama, Republica The transmission of leishmaniasis in de Panama. $43, 840 B-1326(C1).. Dr. Carl H. Johnson.. Dr. M. Puig Solanes. do. General Hospital, Mexico, Federal District, Mexico. Comparative anatomical and physio LACK OF TRAINED MANPOWER Dr. HUNT. The lack of research-trained manpower is a limiting factor in the conquest of disease and the accumulation of new knowledge in basic medical and biological fields. These problems require broad action, otherwise the pace of fundamental and applied research and clinical medicine will be hampered. Training funds were increased from $2,962,000 in 1958 to $6,040,000 in 1959, permitting, among other things, the establishment of additional training programs. By the end of this year 170 research training programs will have been established as compared to 75 in 1958. The research fellowship program is expected to continue at its 1959 level of $3,260,000, supporting "Regular, postsophomore, foreign, part-time and senior research fellowships." RESEARCH ON GERONTOLOGY The Center for Aging Research which was established in 1956 has been transferred to the Division from the National Heart Institute. This group stimulates and coordinates research and training in gerontology through both grants and direct research by all Insti tutes. The total National Institutes of Health support of projects relating primarily to gerontology was over $2 million in calendar year 1958 and $4,133,980 in 1959. Noteworthy accomplishments of work in aging include the establishment of the interdisciplinary research project at Duke University, which was reported to this committee last year, and a second similar project at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which was approved by the Surgeon General in April 1958. The Center for Aging Research plans to stimulate further inquiry into three broad areas: (1) Behavioral and social sciences; (2) The clinical sciences; and (3) The biological sciences. The effect of House action: USE OF HOUSE INCREASE The House Committee on Appropriations, in acting on the appropriations for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for 1960, increased the President's budget by $7,430,000 for the appropriation "General Research and Services, National Institutes of Health." As the Secretary indicated, this increase is contrary to the fiscal policy of the President. However, at the request of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the following statement is submitted in explanation of how this increase, if enacted, would be applied. Activity No. 1(a)-Research projects: The House allowed the full amount of $16,125,000 and added an amount of $2,834,000, which will be utilized to support research in fundamental medical and biological research, research in problems of public health, and research in aging. This amount of $18,959,000 is an increase of $2,338,000 over the 1959 appropriation. |