NIH Gets $2 Billion Increase in Senate Spending Bill

Healthcare Informatics: The Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee approved a fiscal year 2017 funding bill that gives the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a $2 billion increase, and marks the first bipartisan Senate Labor-HHS bill in seven years.

The U.S. Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee approved the last of 19 bipartisan pieces of biomedical legislation that will become the Senate companion to the 21st Century Cures Act back in April, but NIH funding remained an issue.

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