PHILADELPHIA -- Universities that have received billions in National Institutes of Health grants for health-services and biomedical research haven't done enough to support NIH's own fight to stave off Capitol Hill budget cuts, says former Senator Arlen Specter. During his five terms in office Specter was a champion of biomedical and health-services research funding; the 81-year-old Philadelphia lawyer ended his 30-year Senate career in January.

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