Health care negotiations on Capitol Hill are clear as mud

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Bertagnolli’s burgeoning NIH agenda

Monica Bertagnolli is just two months into directing the $48 billion NIH, but she has a laundry list of challenges ahead of her. The agency is staring down potential budget cuts, ongoing interrogations of its infectious disease work, and a balancing act with advocates pressing for price controls on federally-funded drugs.

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