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 WASHINGTON (AP) - From screening newborns for hearing problems to efforts to fight heart disease and find causes of premature birth, some innovative medical programs demanded by families are on the government chopping block.
President Bush's proposed budget for 2007 contains what his health secretary called "hard choices" when it came to devising how much to spend on a host of competing ailments.
Even the usually favored National Institutes of Health — the nation's lead agency in the hunt for the causes, treatments and ways to prevent diseases — didn't get a raise, receiving flat funding of $28.6 billion.
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