National Children's Study in danger due to lack of funding
From Environmental Health NewsChild health study may never begin
Bush's budget may stop the largest-ever effort before it starts
By Lois M. Collins
Deseret Morning News
The National Children's Study, with Salt Lake City as one of its "vanguard" sites, may be dead before the first child is enrolled.
The president's FY2007 budget doesn't contain a penny for the study, which would be the first large-scale longitudinal study of children's health issues in the nation's history. The budget proposal goes a step beyond simply defunding, directing the study be closed down.
Now children's advocates are vowing to lobby Congress to obtain the money to keep the study alive.
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Last Edited: 03/13/06 05:28 PM by Evette Mezger
