In an article entitled "Clinicians Catch Top NIH Officials' Attention" (E. Marshall, Science, 267:448, 1995), Roy Silverstein of the New York University Medical Center said that he is convinced that "patient-oriented research is being underfunded because of some inherent flaws in the review process" at the National Institutes of Health. Alternatively, in a recent piece entitled "How Federal Funding Mechanisms Stifle Basic Biomedical Research" (The Scientist, Aug. 21, 1995, page 10), Edith Ros

E-Mail Efficiency Thank you for publishing Joshua Lederberg's detailed descriptions of his attempts to cope with the literature (The Scientist, Feb. 8, 1993, page 10). I would like to make an additional comment about Internet use. The volume not only of publications but also of grant applications is expanding explosively. I manage the radiation study section (RAD) at the National Institutes of Health, Division of Research Grants. We meet formally three times per year. February 8-10 we rece