Oct 21, 2019
The awkwardly named “Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999”, became law today in 1998. The act had some far-reaching results for the NIH. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine was created (now called the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health); the National Institute of Dental Research had “and Craniofacial” added to its name; and two new NIH buildings were named after retiring members of Congress. Building 50 was named for Louis Stokes, and Building 40 was named the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center.