OAM should receive increased funds in FY 1999, Sen. Specter suggests at budget hearing.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE OFFICE INCREASED FUNDING SUGGESTED BY SEN. SPECTER for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, the Senate Appropriations/HHS Subcommittee chairman said at a April 1 hearing on funding for the National Institutes of Health. "I have the sense that more is in order, given the scope of [the NIH] budget" and "given the scope of the public interest" in alternative and complementary medicine research for FY 1999, the Pennsylvania Republican said.