{"id":17558,"date":"2024-12-01T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17558"},"modified":"2024-12-01T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T17:28:47","slug":"long-a-crown-jewel-of-government-n-i-h-is-now-a-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17558","title":{"rendered":"Long a \u2018Crown Jewel\u2019 of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.<\/p>\n

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The National Institutes of Health, the world\u2019s leading public funder of biomedical research, has an enviable track record. Research supported by the agency has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99 percent of the drugs approved<\/a> by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.<\/p>\n

No surprise, then, that the agency has been called \u201cthe crown jewel of the federal government.\u201d But come January, when President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans take charge, the N.I.H. may face a reckoning.<\/p>\n

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new administration\u2019s selection for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the N.I.H., routinely castigates federal scientists and is a staunch critic of conventional pharmaceuticals and vaccines, with a long record of spreading falsehoods about vaccine safety.<\/p>\n

He has said that he would steer the agency into a yearslong \u201cbreak\u201d from infectious disease research, focusing instead on chronic diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And Mr. Trump\u2019s pick for N.I.H. director<\/a>, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the Stanford professor who gained notoriety during the pandemic for supporting the widely maligned idea that the coronavirus should be left to spread freely among healthy Americans, <\/strong>has called for a dramatic restructuring of the N.I.H., which he has said is led by small-minded bureaucrats.<\/p>\n

While even the agency\u2019s defenders acknowledge that the N.I.H. needs modernization, the radical reforms now proposed would be difficult, if not impossible, without years of legal wrangling and significant support from Congress, experts say.<\/p>\n

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The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.The National Institutes of Health, the world\u2019s leading public funder of biomedical research, has an enviable track record. Research supported by the agency has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99 percent of the drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.No surprise, then, that the agency has been called \u201cthe crown jewel of the federal government.\u201d But come January, when President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans take charge, the N.I.H. may face a reckoning.Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new administration\u2019s selection for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the N.I.H., routinely castigates federal scientists and is a staunch critic of conventional pharmaceuticals and vaccines, with a long record of spreading falsehoods about vaccine safety.He has said that he would steer the agency into a yearslong \u201cbreak\u201d from infectious disease research, focusing instead on chronic diseases.And Mr. Trump\u2019s pick for N.I.H. director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the Stanford professor who gained notoriety during the pandemic for supporting the widely maligned idea that the coronavirus should be left to spread freely among healthy Americans, has called for a dramatic restructuring of the N.I.H., which he has said is led by small-minded bureaucrats.While even the agency\u2019s defenders acknowledge that the N.I.H. needs modernization, the radical reforms now proposed would be difficult, if not impossible, without years of legal wrangling and significant support from Congress, experts say.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17560,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17561,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558\/revisions\/17561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}