Thank you for sharing. I am grateful for health organizations like the CDC, WHO and NIH whose staff of researchers, scientists, epidemiologists work to protect and inform the public from new diseases and improve the health of people who suffer from illness that can be deadly in advance stages.
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Karla Williams
Health Advocate and Educator
Morehouse School of Medicine
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-03-2025 09:55:54 AM
From: David Skorton
Subject: Advocating for NIH Funding
In the past 30 years, the death rate for patients diagnosed with breast cancer - a disease impacting 1 in 8 women - has dropped by nearly 40%, and the side effects of treatment have become fewer and less severe. How?
"This incredible medical success story is due largely to NIH-funded biomedical research conducted in our nation's universities and academic health systems," writes my colleague, Jonathan Jaffery, MD, MS, MMM, FACP, the AAMC's chief health care officer. "Here's what will happen if [cuts to NIH funding] remain in place. Clinical research trials will shut down. Advances will cease. And people will die."
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David Skorton
President and CEO
Association of American Medical Colleges
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