Abstract

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), vested with more money and higher acclaim by Congress than ever before, enjoys a reputation that is perhaps without equal among federal agencies. Yet, even at the height of its standing in the political arena, this world-renowned institution is buffeted by strong pressures to reconfigure its organizational structure, subject its operations to closer congressional scrutiny, and restrict its use of animals in medical research and its pursuit of fetal research. Only President Reagan's veto of the Health Research Extension Act of 1983, a week before his reelection November 6, thwarted legislation that sought to . . .

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