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Meager US budget fails to assuage drug safety concerns

Nature Medicine volume 11, page 240 (2005)Cite this article

Research and drug safety advocates expressed frustration at President Bush's budget plan for the 2006 fiscal year, which boosts funding for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but leaves other biomedical agencies with marginal increases at best.

The new plan, released on 7 February, proposes an overall cut in federal spending on science and technology by 1.4 percent, reflecting government attempts to rein in a budget deficit and bankroll the Iraq war. Advocacy groups say these reductions could chill medical and public health research and disease prevention services.

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