Phoenix68
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"Scientists at the National Institutes of Health demonstrated a promising step toward using a person’s own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers in a paper in Nature Medicine on Tuesday, the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs that left many NIH personnel in tears.
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Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff and by purchasing slowdowns. Those occurred even before major layoffs took place Tuesday.
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The quality of care at the NIH Clinical Center, the country’s largest research hospital, remains excellent, Rosenberg said. But the Trump administration’s aggressive downsizing of staff and hampering of routine activities is beginning to delay that care."
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Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff and by purchasing slowdowns. Those occurred even before major layoffs took place Tuesday.
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The quality of care at the NIH Clinical Center, the country’s largest research hospital, remains excellent, Rosenberg said. But the Trump administration’s aggressive downsizing of staff and hampering of routine activities is beginning to delay that care."
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