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Science 8 May 1998:
Vol. 280. no. 5365, p. 821
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5365.821b
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CANADA:
Plan Would Link, Bolster Health Research

Wayne Kondro

OTTAWA--Canadian health officials are seriously considering a plan that could double federal spending on university-based medical research next year by creating a national framework that would supplement the current bottoms-up approach to funding research. Such a system would give the ruling Liberal government a way to invest in health care without stepping on the jurisdictional toes of the provinces and to inject $375 million a year into a biomedical and health research community now strapped for cash.

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