NCVS Status and Progress Report, Volume 5, November 1993
Abstract
This 5th Status and Progress Report comes at a time when we are all thinking of the long term future of the National Center for Voice and Speech. Many things are changing right now in the health science arena. All of us are familiar, of course, with the day to day developments of President Clinton's health care package. One thing is certain - each year we have to become more clever as researchers. The Advisory Board to NIDCD wishes us to get deeper into the molecular structure of all the organs of the human body involved in speech communication. At the same time, they wish us to understand the whole body as a system. Yet it is becoming more and more difficult to do invasive procedures, either on humans or on animals. This means that the critical data that we all need have to come from very carefully conducted experiments, those that have a high benefit to risk (or cost) ratio. On the one hand, we need large numbers of human subjects or animals to make our results statistically reliable; on the other hand, we need to conserve and protect humans and animals involved in research. This puts all of the pressure on the experimenter to obtain only those pieces of information that are absolutely vital and then to integrate the fragments in the most clever ways.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA274975