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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-04-07 10:31 AM
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US Budget Priorities
2007 Pentagon budget-- 459 billion dollars

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071003.wpentagon1004/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071003.wpentagon1004

2007 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Budget-- 29 billion dollars

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/16/1665.

NIH is the federal agency that supports the vast majority of biomedical research in the US-- research that seeks to find cures for human diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimers, asthma, arthritis, infectious disease (to name just a few).
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