Epilepsy Cure Stalled by Cuts

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A cure for her daughter's epilepsy was getting close. Then Trump froze health spending.

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The NIH is the world's largest funder of medical research, accounting for about 1% of the overall federal budget.

The cuts will make the country sicker and poorer as healthcare costs rise without new treatments for obesity, diabetes, cancer, autism and aging, researchers, patients, family members and entrepreneurs say.

Many conservatives criticize the NIH for having close ties to pharmaceutical companies.

Other critics argue NIH is too "woke," or hasn't done enough to study the potential negative impacts of abortion and gender-affirming care.

A conservative blueprint for remaking the federal government calls for dramatic changes to the NIH .

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