Steady progress: Better budgets for biologists
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The Congress has planned to raise the 2007 budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $620 million to $29 billion, marking a modest success for the biomedical research lobby and for the NIH director. The increase in funding will see a rapid growth in university medical centers and an increase in postdocs to staff them and also address America's healthcare needs.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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Clinical precision
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Disease lobby groups should influence, but not enforce their power on research priorities of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The power of the advocacy groups must be tempered or else their ability to influence budgets might dominate, to the detriment of both basic laboratory science and of research targeted at diseases that have weaker constituencies.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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