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Every year, the process of setting budget allocations for the National Institutes of Health involves a complicated meld of congressional politics, patient lobbying, and scientific soothsaying. And it's only getting tougher as the NIH budget tightens.
To read the full, original article click on this link: NIH Is Prodded to Consider a Better Science for Allocating Research Dollars - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education
