San Diego County leaders urge Congress to reverse NIH cuts, citing threat to health, jobs

San Diego County leaders urge Congress to reverse NIH cuts, citing threat to health, jobs

Headquarters of the National Institutes of Health in Maryland. (Photo courtesy of NIH) San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer joined academic leaders and others Monday to ask Congress to reconsider cuts to the federal National Institutes of Health. Lawson-Remer, the acting chair of the Board of Supervisors, on Monday announced a resolution she will bring before the board on June 3 urging the federal government to reconsider a proposed 40…

Dr. Deepak Srivastava: NIH cuts threaten health, economy - The Voice of San Francisco

The federal budget battle has come to San Francisco. The Trump administration has cut billions of dollars of funding to the National Institutes of Health. Critics have argued that the cuts risk not only derailing medical research that is underway but harming United States’ innovation in biomedicine for years to come as top researchers go elsewhere. Those cuts are tied up in courts, but even without an immediate resolution, they have already had …

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Supervisor Lawson-Remer, local doctors, patients urge no health agency cuts

San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer joined academic leaders and others on Monday to ask Congress to reconsider cuts to the federal National Institutes of Health.