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U.S. RESEARCH POLICY: Med Schools Add Labs Despite Budget Crunch
Jocelyn Kaiser
The recent flattening of the National Institutes of Health budget hasn't slowed a building boom among U.S. medical schools that began during a 5-year doubling of NIH's budget in the late 1990s.