Senate Panel Approves More Money for NIH

The maximum Pell Grant would remain level for the fourth year in a row and the budget of the National Institutes of Health would rise 3.7 percent under a spending bill for 2006 approved by a U.S. Senate Appropriations committee last week.

In addition, the bill would preserve this year's level of funds for the Health Professions programs, which train students from minority groups and disadvantaged backgrounds to be physicians and dentists. A version of the bill approved by the House of

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