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To: bentway who wrote (815027)11/3/2014 3:18:01 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 1583986
 
"The government never comes up with anything"

They also came up with a solution, and later a pill, just for that problem.

NIH Funds Support Nobel Laureates

The three 1998 Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine -- Drs. Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad -- all enjoyed, like many of their predecessors, years of NIH grant support for their prizewinning investigations.

The trio were recognized for basic discoveries about nitric oxide, a gas the body uses in many physiological functions ranging from dilating blood vessels (its actions led to the creation of Viagra to treat impotence), to regulating blood pressure, to sending signals to the nervous system.

nihrecord.nih.gov

(Murad was my Chief of Medicine for a while at the VA, B4 he won the prize.



To: bentway who wrote (815027)11/3/2014 3:36:17 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1583986
 
>> That can't be right, WR. The government never comes up with anything.

The "government" did do it. The taxpayers paid a privately run corporation to do it.