January 8, 1999

White House Budget Office May Propose Little New Money for NIH in 2000

Talk about a mood buster. No sooner had officials at the National Institutes of Health begun to plan spending their $2-billion budget increase for fiscal 1999 than they learned that the Office of Management and Budget may recommend almost no new money for the institutes in 2000.

The N.I.H., which received a 15-per-cent increase for fiscal 1999, would see only a 0.3-per-cent boost under a draft plan from the

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