Journal of the American Medical Association: Funding of US Biomedical Research, 2003-2008 – After doubling in a decade, the rate of increase in biomedical research in the U.S. has slowed since 2005, and the level of funding from the National Institutes of Health and industry appears to have decreased by 2 percent in 2008, after adjusting for inflation, the authors of this study report.

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According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, people under Medicare are more likely to survive the first 30 days after a heart attack than they would have done more than a decade ago. The people are also likely to find more consistent quality of care among hospitals in terms of its treatment of heart attack survivors.

Regular use of aspirin after colorectal cancer diagnosis may reduce the risk of cancer death, report investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The study, published on August 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, also indicated that the aspirin-associated survival advantage was seen primarily in patients with tumors expressing the COX-2 enzyme, a characteristic of two-thirds of colorectal cancers. The researchers had compiled data from two ongoing prospective research studies, the Nurses Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS).