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1989 Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus Calls For Global Medical Research Corps.(Brief Article)
2001 DEC 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Nobel medicine laureate has proposed the establishment of a Peace Corps-type international program for medical researchers, saying it would narrow the health care gap between rich and poor nations.
Dr. Harold Varmus, who won a Nobel Prize in 1989 for work leading to the identification of genes that are frequently mutated in cancer, told an audience of fellow laureates and other top researchers that the worsening health disparity between the rich and the poor threatens global security. The scientists met to mark the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize - awarded for work that most benefits mankind.
"We are also meeting in the wake of a cataclysm, one that makes us ask what is the role of science in the world,'' Varmus said, referring to the September 11 attacks. "Will it continue for the benefit of mankind or simply accentuate a growing difference between the rich and the poor?''
With the world's population increasing, Varmus said more money should be spent to narrow the gap in health care. "Many more people will be not only old but also poor, hungry, at high risk of infectious diseases,'' he said.
Varmus, former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and now president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...
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