Crain's Cleveland : declared in Two Cleveland Clinic heart doctors raise concerns about proposed NIH budget cuts

Even President Trump's proposed budget, "which many have thought was incredibly austere, wouldn't achieve that goal ...," the website notes. Two Cleveland Clinic heart doctors are among those raising concerns in this Reuters story about the impact of President Donald Trump's proposed 20% cut to the budget of the National Institutes of Health. ...Top heart doctors and researchers at the ACA meeting used words like "chilling" and "catastrophe" to describe their reaction to the proposed $5.8 billion cut to the NIH budget. "Even keeping defense, homeland security and veterans budgets flat — Trump proposed raising them — would require another $30 billion in cuts from what Trump has proposed." Their fear, as Reuters puts it, is that research that results in life-saving drugs will be dealt "a crippling blow."

Trump speech guest of honor rips NIH budget cuts

So if we don't invest massively in this effort, which includes NIH funding, it's going to lead to enormous amounts of human suffering." ADVERTISEMENT"For me as an entrepreneur, it's all about inventions and healing, and I think NIH plays a crucial role. John Crowley and his 20-year-old daughter Megan Crowley, who suffers from Pompe disease, were invited to the speech, which coincided with Rare Disease Day. And if you have a kid with a rare disease or a parent with Alzheimer's it's obviously not acceptable. He also said NIH funding was important to help with research and the creation of new drugs.


WASHINGTON — The White House is proposing a $1.2 billion cut this year to the National Institutes of Health's budget, targeting research grants. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for facebook/" target="_blank">comment. Several other news outlets have reported the $1.2 billion cut proposed for NIH. Patrick White, director of the nonprofit Act for NIH, said he hoped to have the opportunity to brief the White House soon and emphasize the importance of funding for the agency. Government funding is currently set to expire at the end of April; the White House is proposing these non-defense spending cuts for the remainder of the fiscal year.


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