'BODY-COUNT BUDGETING'? Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) is concerned that diseases that cost taxpayers the most money may not be getting a proportionate amount of NIH funds. |
Varmus and other high-level NIH officials clearly think they do quite well indeed in allocating research dollars--$13.6 billion this year, and $14.8 billion under the administration's proposed budget for next year--to fund basic science and support research into, essentially, all human ailments. But not everybody agrees. In particular, many of the...
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