In 2002 the Institute of Medicine (which is not part of the NIH, but is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences) called for the creation of a National Vaccine Authority that would have sweeping responsibilities, including market research, the establishment of priorities, control of intellectual-property rights, the conduct of in-house research and development and the financing of clinical trials of candidate vaccines.

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Last fall, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the independent National Academy of Sciences, to study certain questions related to HIV testing policy and access to care.

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Dr. Yoshikawa received the Boyd McCandless Award for early career contributions to developmental psychology from the American Psychological Association, and has served on the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation.

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Established in 1970 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Instituteof Medicineprovides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, health professionals, the private sector, and the public.

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However, one unnamed expert from the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences tells Global Times that the public's health could be at risk, despite government assurances that porcine circovirus found in one dead pig is not harmful to humans, just pigs.

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