Science scores in 2010 US budget
Overall, federal science fares well in President Barack Obama's recently announced FY2010 linkurl:budget,;http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Overview/ but the National Institutes of Health would net a pretty paltry increase under the president's plan. In the proposal, the NIH stands to get slightly more than $30.8 billion in 2010. This would represent a $443 million, or 1.5%, bump over the NIH's 2009 budget. Kathleen Sebelius, our newly crowned Department of Health and Human Services Secretar

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