My thoughts on proposed federal research funding cuts in this great piece on Medscape that highlights just a sample of what funding health research has done for Americans:

“It’s hard to even comprehend what’s lost when federal funding dries up,” says Christopher Worsham, MD, a critical care physician and researcher at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and coauthor of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Factors That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health. “There are the obvious setbacks — ongoing projects shut down, discoveries delayed by years. But there are also the invisible losses. Labs that never form. Scientists who never get trained. A career’s worth of discovery, gone before it began.”