America's research funding squeeze imperils patient care, say top medical school deans
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Constraints in federal funding, compounded by declining clinical revenue, jeopardize more than America's research enterprise, experts say. These twin pressures have created a "hostile working environment" that erodes time to conduct research, "discourages innovative high-risk science" and threatens to drive established and early-career scientists out of the field. And this, they add, in turn undermines patient care.