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BALTIMORE, June 17 (LSN) – A Johns Hopkins University study on “The Relation between Funding by the National Institutes of Health and the Burden of Disease” was published in today’s release of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study showed that fundamental indications of the burden of disease such as incidence and prevalence played little role in funding determination whereas factors such as number of healthy years lost to disease did play a role in accounting for the amount of allocated resources.  However, the study revealed that in the case of some diseases such as AIDS and breast cancer, it was impossible to find a link between the burden of the disease on public health and the proportion of funds allocated to combat them.