> > The NIH funding allocation is part of the Obama Administration's > American Reinvestment and Recovery Act-or economic stimulus bill. > Competition for the funding was fierce with more than 20,000 > applications for the Challenge Grants category and only 840 >awarded. "In > the current climate of health care reform, the purpose of this grant >is > to find more effective treatments for heart disease and thereby find > more effective ways to reduce health care costs," Dr. Schneider said. > > "The NHLBI's Recovery Act funds will make it possible to evaluate > Transcendental Meditation
Really, as part of the recovery, aren't there more cost effective ways of bringing something like this meditation to people?
