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Created: 2025-07-25 17:14:36 UTC

Cuts to NIH are having devastating effects, says fmr. director Francis Collins. One example: “Natalie Phelps… with stage X colorectal cancer, who was on a pathway towards a clinical trial of immunotherapy… Because of staff cuts, that got slowed down. By the time maybe she could have enrolled in it, she already had a metastasis to the brain and was no longer eligible.”

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