U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that Ohio will receive more than $27 million in grants for the improvement of biomedical research facilities at Ohio institutions of higher education.

Two scientific teams at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center are receiving a total of $2.3 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue promising studies seeking novel treatments for leukemia and bone marrow failure.

As a result of mounting litigation due to adverse reactions and low profit margins, many vaccine manufacturers decided to drop their programs in the 1980s. Many manufacturers considered vaccines as “low-value products for saturated childhood markets.” A recent article in the January 2010 issue of The Scientist suggests that times are changing and that vaccines are perhaps the pharmaceutical industry’s next big thing.

Via press release from the University of Cincinnati
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