Frustrated with the lack of treatment options for kids, they meet once a month to come up with ways to fund medical research.

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When you fund medical research, there is nobody to hug.

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Dr John Toy, medical director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in the UK, said it shared the findings of its studies with others abroad.

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The King's Fund medical charity, which has 10 separate advocacy projects for refugees in London, says the research echoes its own findings.

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Research by Richard Hamblin and others at the King's Fund, a medical charity, has found that, despite the lengthening queue, the average wait has remained at 13-14 weeks since the 1960s.

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Conservative peer Baroness Knight of Collingtree then asked whether the government proposed to fund research into more effective flu vaccines, in the light of the recent report in medical journal the Lancet.

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Dr Nancy Green is acting medical director of the March of Dimes, a US voluntary health agency which helped to fund the research.

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"Not only did we have a legal right to fund the research, we had an obligation, " says Thomas Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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