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Congress Sees Daily Double on NIH, NSF
The ponies are off and running in the annual race we call the federal budget process. Competing interests are jockeying for position, and even though the country is no longer saddled with a deficit, it
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NIH Does It Again
For the third year in a row, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) received a large double-digit increase in its annual budget. At a time when partisan rancor has been and will continue to be
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FY97 House Appropriations Report on NIH and CDC: Excerpts from House Report 104-659
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Office of the Director Training-The Committee notes that the National Academy of Sciences recommended in its most recent assessment of the nation’s need for biomedical and behavioral researchers that NIH increase
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Pulp Non-Fiction: NIH May Get 6.5-Percent Boost
I t’s summer, a time when one of the most important decisions any of us makes is … what paperback to take on vacation. In Washington, one of the hottest new books just hit the
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Update on the Activities of the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
In 1993 Congress established the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the belief that scientific research on behavioral and social factors had been under-funded relative
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APS and Friends Testify on NIH
What a difference a year makes. Last spring, while official Washington was reeling from the changes in Congress, the entire federal budget was on the potential chopping block, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-normally
