Sequestration will take big bite from medical research funding
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
The NIH, the world's largest supporter of biomedical research, will lose $1.6 billion of its $30-billion budget through the sequester.Research into cancer, Alzheimer's disease and influenza may lose crucial funding even as scientists say they are on the cusp of medical breakthroughs.