The NIH Spends More on Travel Paperwork Than on Researching Hodgkin’s Disease
Researchers on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
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At the National Institutes of Health’s wooded campus northwest of Washington, America’s top medical researchers work in state-of-the-art labs to find a cure for cancer, map the brain and care for patients with Ebola.
If they want to leave, though, to meet with scientists around the world at scientific and medical conferences, they spend their time doing paperwork instead.