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Punchbowl News
Health care groups press House GOP over NIH funding
A coalition of nearly four dozen top health care advocacy groups is urging House Republicans to oppose any cuts to NIH funding, even as the Trump administration withholds hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants for the agency.
Brookings
Cuts to NIH funding go beyond health
The extent of these potential NIH funding cuts may have even broader implications. The innovations that result from this research generate investments that spur economic activity across the country. The economic impact may also be felt at the local level. When individual institutions receive those funds, they hire researchers who may relocate to take these jobs. Spending in the area increases and other local businesses may prosper.
CNN
Uncertainty around NIH funding leaves Alzheimer’s studies in limbo
Zahydie Burgos Ribot and her husband, Francisco Rios, are checking items off their travel bucket list and spending quality time together before Francisco will no longer be able to travel – and before his brain forgets.
Johns Hopkins
Operation Hope: How Federally Funded Research Helped Navy Veteran Beat Lung Cancer and Pneumonitis
It started with a bit of blood. In April 2013, then 68-year-old John Ryan checked in with his primary care physician after he suddenly began to cough up trace amounts of blood. One emergency room trip and several tests later, the 30-year Navy veteran was told to prepare for his toughest battle yet: stage 4 non-small-cell lung cancer, adenocarcinoma.
The Dallas Morning News
Letters to the Editor — Alzheimer’s research
“In October 2015, my husband sat me down and said, through tears, “I’m sick.” I had noticed the memory lapses, but nothing could prepare me for the truth: Alzheimer’s. He was still working, still vibrant, still young. His mother had suffered from the disease, and now it had come for him, too.”