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DISEASE FUNDING AND NIH PRIORITY SETTING (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Sept. 10, 1998
Report Number 97-917
Authors Judith A. Johnson, Science, Technology, and Medicine Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has strong political support, but a heated debate rages over the allocation of NIH funds among various diseases. NIH contends that decisions are made based on scientific opportunity while critics of the NIH process charge that spending often follows current politics and political correctness.