Top heart doctors and researchers reportedly described President Donald Trump’s proposed 20% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget as “chilling” and a “catastrophe” at the American College of Cardiology meeting this month.
Many expressed fears that as drug companies shift their focus to oncology and rare diseases, NIH-funded research will become more important to cardiology and the proposed $5.8 billion cut could leave life-saving research in a lurch.
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