COLLINS WELCOMES TOTAL HILL LOVE FOR NIH

COLLINS WELCOMES TOTAL HILL LOVE FOR NIH-politico: After 12 years of flat funding and NIH Director Francis Collins singing the sequester blues, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are now competing to one-up each other and boost NIH's budget. Even tea partiers are voicing a passionate commitment to give the medical research agency more resources. House appropriators are pushing a more than $1 billion budget increase for NIH in FY 2016, and the Senate is expected to go higher. Meanwhile, the 21st Century Cures effort could direct another $10 billion over 5 years to the agency.