Clinical research and the NIH--a report card.

Eight years ago, Harold E. Varmus, then the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), convened a panel to evaluate the status of clinical research in the NIH portfolio and to make recommendations for strengthening this component of the U.S. biomedical research effort. This Sounding Board article examines the outcome of the panel's recommendations.

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