The federal government has spent $2.2 million studying why three quarters of lesbians are obese despite sequestration-mandated budget cuts that critics warned could “delay progress in medical breakthroughs.”
The National Institutes of Health awarded an additional $682,873 to Brigham and Women’s Hospital for the study on July 17. The project had received previous grants of $778,622 in 2011, and $741,378 in 2012. Total funding has reached $2,202,873.
The project has survived budget cuts due to sequestration, which the NIH warned would “delay progress in medical breakthroughs.”
The study, being led by S. Bryn Austin, an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, sets out to find the biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not.
At the time this study was first reported, a spokesman for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which is administering the project, said its future was uncertain because of the sequester.
“The NIH is currently assessing the impact on funding due to sequestration,” said Robert Bock, press officer for the NICHD, in March. “It is not possible to say how this (or any other NIH grant) will be affected in the long term beyond the 90 percent funding levels already in place.”
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The source law for the National Institute of Health is the Animal Welfare Act, created in the Department of Agriculture, a/k as the Commodity Credit Corporation, this is the definition of” patient” in the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act ( ObamaCare).
TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 6A - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER III - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
Part A - National Institutes of Health
REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Animal Welfare Act, referred to in subsecs. (d)(2)(D), (3)(B)
and (e)(3)(A)(ix), is Pub. L. 89-544, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 350,
as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 54 (Sec. 2131
et seq.) of Title 7, Agriculture. For complete classification of
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section
2131 of Title 7 and Tables.
Section 3 of the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance, and
Protection Act, referred to in subsec. (d)(4)(A), is section 3 of
Pub. L. 106-551, which is set out as a note below.
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After years of lobbying Congress for mandatory mental health screening for gun ownership, and Congress’ refusal, the Corporation financed James Holmes, of the Colorado Theater massacre.
James Eagan Holmes
In June 2011, Holmes enrolled as a Ph.D. student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.[26] He received a $21,600 grant from the National Institutes of Health according to agency records. The grant was from July 2011 to June 2012. Holmes also received a $5,000 stipend from the University of Colorado, Denver
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