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Taking issue with Congress' funding cuts for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Weicker stressed the importance of scientific and medical research...
Rudenstine said he was particularly pleased with the increases in funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which translates into money for research. The University receives the majority of its federal funding from the NIH, Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs James H. Rowe III '73 said last week...
According to Rudenstine, the House of Representatives raised NIH funding 5.6 percent, while the Senate increased it by 3 percent. Rudenstine said he is hoping for a 4 or 5 percent increase after the bill is returned from conference...
Although this would still be "lower than inflation for those kind of programs," it would make the NIH one of the few such programs to receive any increase...
Meanwhile, substantial reductions in Medicare and NIH subsidies for teaching and research could wipe out much of the benefit from these economies so painfully achieved. "We look at cuts as unfunded mandates,'' says Mark Laret, deputy director of the Medical Center at ucla, which stands to lose some $16 million. "We are supposed to provide all the same services and do it with less. Medicare, to its credit, is the only payer that contributes anything to the cost of medical education, and that has got to change.'' UCLA has already talked with several local hmos about a premium...