Excerpt from The Fourteenth Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory CouncilThe final chapter of the report discusses Institute goals, priorities, and resource needs in the immediate future. The topics include, among Others: clinical trials, which are large scale studies designed to test the effectiveness and safety of preventive and therapeutic regimens before they are introduced into practice, the Institute's efforts to enhance minority representation in the biomedical research community, the Council's concern for the plight of newly trained investigators with great potential who have not been successful in getting research funds, and a recommended budget for the Institute for fiscal years 1988 through 1992.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.