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Nature 408, 627 (7 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35047232

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Gridlock stalls NIH budget rise

Paul Smaglik

While the United States enters December without having elected a president, biomedical researchers face an even more pressing problem. Thanks to gridlock in Washington, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) still has no budget for the 2001 financial year, which began on 1 October.