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Famed geneticist Francis Collins blasts cuts to science funding
Geneticist Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, said Wednesday that biomedical research had “never been under greater stress” due to budget cuts. “It’s a difficult time in our country,” he said on PBS Newshour. “I get that. The fiscal situation is, clearly, very serious, and so…
National Institutes of Health halts funding for medical research using chimps
The National Institutes of Health, America’s foremost medical research agency, said Wednesday it no longer would fund studies involving chimpanzees, as it prepares to revise its policies on using the primates. The NIH said it also plans to review all ongoing studies using chimpanzees, although such projects already are rare.…
Sequestration will have ‘catastrophic consequences’ on medical research
The automatic budget cuts set to go into effect at the end of the year will have a devastating effect on medical research in the United States, according to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). If sequestration goes into effect, as it is scheduled to do in…
Male doctors earn more than women: U.S. study
WASHINGTON — Men who are doctors earn about $12,000 more per year than women doctors, according to a US study published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The differences persisted even after adjusting for factors like specialty, academic rank and work hours, said researchers at the…
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