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Action Alert: Support increased funding for the NIH and public access to health information

The House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education is expected to mark-up its fiscal year 2008 funding bill during the week of June 4. This bill provides annual appropriations for biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the National Library of Medicine.

You are encouraged to contact members of the House Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee and your own member of the House of Representatives to ask them to support a 6.7% funding increase for NIH, to provide the resources necessary to construct a new facility for the National Library of Medicine, and to make the NIH public access policy that requires authors to submit their articles into PubMed Central as soon as possible, but no later than 12 months, mandatory.

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