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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sun, Gordon H
• Steinberg, Jeffrey D
• Jagsi, Reshma

Titel

The Calculus of National Medical Research Policy — The United States versus Asia

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2012-08, Vol.367 (8), p.687-690

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cuts to U.S.-government-funded research will adversely affect the health care system and the economy and may irreversibly compromise the work of many U.S. laboratories. Meanwhile, forward-looking medical research policies in five Asian countries are filling the void. Since the founding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) more than six decades ago, the United States has maintained a preeminent position as a government sponsor of medical research. That primacy is being tested, however, by potent economic challenges. The NIH's proposed budget for fiscal year 2013 would freeze baseline funding at 2012 levels, continuing a decade-long failure to keep pace with the rising costs of conducting medical research. Across-the-board cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011 will also affect medical research, with the NIH, NSF, and other federal research . . .