NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH:
A Call From Downtown to Shed Staff, Authority
Jocelyn Kaiser
A renewed push by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to streamline staff and operations is stirring concern at the $27 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH). Some NIH alumni and current staff members say they are worried that intramural research will get mired in paperwork if HHS centralizes authority, as the memo implies.