Abstract
The politics of biomedical research are condensed in a joke about the budgetary plight of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which, virtually alone among the institutes embraced by the National Institutes of Health, does not have a disease in its title — as, for example, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke. "Since no one ever died of general medical sciences," the joke goes, "GMS comes out worst in the budget."The reality of this witticism was in evidence on the floor of the Senate on September 26, when, for the first time, a . . .
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