Word: nih
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State of the Union speech last January, Nixon asked Congress to increase its cancer-research budget of $232 million by $100 million. But, contrary to the Senate subcommittee's proposal, the Administration urged that any cancer-cure program be kept within the existing structure of the NIH...
...exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation of a new, NASA-type National Cancer Authority outside the NIH to oversee the search for a cure. Senator Edward Kennedy, who succeeded Texas' Ralph Yarborough as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on health, put his own imprimatur on the commission's proposal and submitted the recommendations as legislation...
...reasons were managerial, not medical. Administration officials feared that creation of the superagency would trigger demands for similar organiza tions to fight heart disease and other illnesses. That in turn might lead to the ultimate dismemberment of the NIH, which conducts a wide variety of medical and training programs. They also worried that the NASA-type agency proposed by Kennedy would rapidly develop its own constituency on Capitol Hill, where few Congressmen would publicly oppose rising expenditures aimed at curing cancer...
Many scientists shared the Administration's reservations. James Shannon, a director of the NIH from 1955 to 1968, argued that biomedical research could no longer be judiciously balanced if the attack on one specific problem was assigned to a special authority. Philip Lee, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, warned that "a separate cancer agency would immediately create competition for funds and scientific talent...
HEALTH MANPOWER AND RESEARCH. The National Institutes of Health got an extra $98 million from Congress. Sixteen million dollars of that was earmarked for programs to increase the supply of doctors, nurses and medical technicians; $56 million was tacked on to the NIH budget for medical research...