NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says

NEW YORK (AP) — Over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts, according to a new report. The funding cuts likely disrupted patients’ lives in different ways. More broadly, the lost research harms patients who could have benefited from a possible new treatment, researchers said in the report published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. Of those, 1 in 30 lost funding. Challenges to NIH’s attempted cuts to the so-called indirect costs of medical research are also making their way through the courts.