Health Expert calls Trump's medical research “ruthless destruction”,

The National Institutes of Health are the world's largest source of financing for medical research. It also subjected Huge budget cuts in the past few weeks that the Trump administration has imposedThe thoughts of Dr. Timothy Johnson, long -time ABC News Medical Editor and founding editor of the Harvard Medical School's health letter:

In the course of my long career in medical journalism, I had the great privilege of getting to know many of the leading medical researchers in this country. They were typically people with great integrity who had devoted themselves to the often frustrating and tedious task of careful research in order to find new healings and prevention for important medical problems. And the end result for many of them was that they could never achieve the discoveries that helped all of us without government support.

For this reason, I am stunned by a recently published report in which the national health institutes of the Trump government indicate 700 specific medical research projects.

This hunter approach will cause terrible damage to many outstanding research programs and destroy the career of many young doctors who are just starting their research. These are committed people who have had difficult training in many years and may be at the level of some important discoveries.

And I think it is possible that many of these suddenly defined researchers will find positions in other inviting countries-a “brain drainage” conversely according to the river of many scientists in This country during and after World War II.

Why no longer insist on a surgical approach that would find legitimate savings without destroying the research infrastructure that has been serving our country so well for decades?

Simply put, we are faced with the choice between intelligent decisions or ruthless destruction that can affect our nation's health for the coming generations.

And if I can use a sophisticated medical term, it seems to me that the right choice is a “breeze”.

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