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On the recordJuly 14, 2015
NIH funding overall is down 25 percent since 2003. That means for NIH we are investing about $12.5 billion less in medical research this year than if we had just kept up with inflation over the last decade.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren discusses the decline in NIH funding and its impact on medical research.

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