PBS News 11/17/25: NIH cuts affected over 74,000 patients enrolled in experiments, report finds
An excerpt:
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID-19, researchers found…
More broadly, the lost research harms patients who could have benefited from a possible new treatment, researchers said in the report published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine…
“The whole purpose of these clinical trials is to generate evidence on what works and doesn’t work in medicine,” said study co-author Anupam B. Jena with Harvard Medical School. Researchers counted 11,008 NIH-funded studies during the study period. Of those, 1 in 30 lost funding.
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