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NIH got $1.6 billion for research into long COVID. Where are the treatments?

by Samantha Fields
Nov 11, 2024
About $1.6 billion has been invested in a program that has yielded little progress, disappointing many who suffer with the complex condition.
Efforts to develop treatments for long COVID, which has a wide range of symptoms, have had little success so far. Above, an event supporting long COVID patients in Germany.
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To boost diversity in clinical trials, NIH takes to the road to collect DNA from underrepresented groups

by Blake Farmer
Aug 9, 2022
During the pandemic, the effort suspended in-person recruiting and lost momentum.
The All of Us bus helps the program connect with potential drug trial participants and collect biospecimens.
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There's a big racial disparity in NIH funding

by Mark Garrison
Nov 20, 2015
Aside from sheer fairness issues, the racial gap could hurt patients, too.
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