Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Chart on NIH Funding by Disease Prevalence

I blogged about an ongoing series by economist Aaron Carroll the other day. This chart is from his discussion of investment in health which includes such things as NIH funding and money for community health. The following chart just amazed me:

While funding for HIV/AIDs research is important, is it over 200 times more important than the research for heart disease?

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