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Editorial
Nature 444, 789 (14 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444789a; Published online 13 December 2006
Calmer waters ahead
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Abstract
A conviction, the passage of a bill, and the arrival of some new committee chairmen have markedly improved the immediate outlook for biomedical research in the United States.
The past few years have witnessed a rough patch for relations between the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its overseers in Congress. Stagnant funding has followed on from the largesse that doubled the biomedical agency's budget between 1998 and 2003.
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