Posted by
cehwiedel on Monday, December 11, 2006 10:05:59 PM
Senator Barbara Boxer is protesting a decision by the Director of the National Institutes of Health to defund an AIDS research clinic in Los Angeles. From the Senator's
press release:
I write to express my deep concern that National Institutes of Health
(NIH) funding for the Clinical Trial Unit at the LAC+USC Medical Center
Rand Schrader Clinic in Los Angeles has been eliminated. The Clinic has
served a needy client population with excellence for twenty years, and
I request that you take immediate action to restore its funding.
The two reasons she gives for protesting the closure are the loss of valuable research subjects, and the inability of the clinic's participants to travel to the next closest facility.
No space is given to a consideration of the cost of keeping the facility open, or to what other item might be cut from the NIH's budget to make up the money.
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