PolicyKina Excerpt: “Mortgaging Your Life: The Hidden Costs of Medical School Loans.” Image Credit: Dreamstime.com/Eti Swinford “I recently tweeted about a blog post, ‘The High Cost of Profiting from Student Loans,’ that discusses the tens of billions of dollars in profits that the… Read More ›

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The Ugly Truth – NIH Budget Cuts, Dispirited Scientists, and Patients in Peril
Image: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infects a T-cell. Sequestration will cut funding for HIV research, testing, and treatment. (Image Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) I discussed the effect of sequestration on funding at the National Institutes of Health… Read More ›
In Like a Lion: As Sequestration Roars, Funding Cuts Loom Large at the National Institutes of Health
Ah, the month of March: In like a lion, out like a….well, we don’t yet know how it is going to turn out. President Obama signed sequestration funding cuts into law on March 1, 2013. What does this mean for… Read More ›