Advocates Win 'Exceptional' Boost for Alzheimer's Research

摘要

The 2013 budget proposed by President Barack Obama last week would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) not a penny more than it received this year. But the Administration found a way to give special attention to one disease: Alzheimer's, whic will receive $80 million in new research fund ing from a source outside NIH's budget. This month, the Administration also announced, to the surprise of many at NIH, that the agency public policy and advocacy lor the Alzheim er's Association, this month's victory also reflects a series of steps that built bipartisan support in Congress and the Administration.