Free Access to Health Research

As a taxpayer, you've paid for the research, and now Congress has passed a bill that has a provision that would allow you to have FREE scientific health research. Under the bill's terms, scientists getting grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would now have to submit a final copy of their research for publication in a journal. An NIH database would then post those papers, free to the public, within 12 months after publication. The NIH will now start working out how to implement the legislation, a process that could take six months. You can read more about this provision here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/20/AR2007122002115.html or keep track of it here: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/