They did. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Announcer the director of the National Institutes of health testified at a Senate Hearing about nih funding. Senator roy blunt chairs the twohour subcommittee hearing. Sen. Blunt committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services, education, and related agencies will come to order. Related agencies will come to order. Before my opening statement, i the personognize that we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight, and the success she has made. We are glad you are here. I was just told the youngest of your six children just got their drivers license. Good luck with that. [laughter] chance toad to have a meet with her. We are glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes assured theu rest committee will find unacceptable. The 7. 5 billion cut from nih was, according to analysts, would cost nearly 90,
The overall goal, as you point out is to deliver the right medication to the right patient at the right time and not to over treat people because we know that overtreatment can sometimes actually have serious side effects. Recently, for example within the i supported research it was reported that giving people with Colorectal Cancer less treatment they actually did better than people with more treatment, an important part of the Precision Medicine initiative which, thanks to your committee and congress has been strongly supported, we have been conducting research that is trying to understand better how the molecular abnormalities with Breast Cancer and other cancers can have implications for what treatments should different patients be obtaining as we try to refine those opportunities and interventions. Doctor gibbons, there is new research that would suggest having the stroke more than doubles the risk of dementia. Could you talk about that a little bit and in that area you might furt
Director Francis Collins about their 2018 budget request, as well as various kinds of medical Research Done by the agency. This is about two hours. Senator roy blunt chairs the twohour Senate Appropriations hearing subcommittee. Will come totee order. The appropriations subcommittee labor,r, wealth health, Human Services, and agencies will come to order. For my opening statement, i , whoke to recognize we had an opportunity to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success she has made nih awhen we were out at few days ago. We are glad you are here. And i was just told the young us of your six children just got their drivers license, so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that. We are all glad to have a chance to meet with her. Im glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts. Rest assured, i think this committee will find them unacceptable, the 7. 5 million cut from nih would, according to analysts, this fundin
Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my opening statement, i want to recognize melinda bikini, we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success shes made there when we were out in nih a few days ago, and we are glad youre here and i was just told that the youngest of your six children just got their drivers license so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that and we were glad to have a chance to meet with her, glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts that i think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable. The 7. 5 billion cut from nih would according to analysts, this funding would cost nearly 90,000 jobs nationwide, result in 15. 3 billion of lost economic activity. In my home state of missouri that equates to a loss of nearly 1,700 jobs and 292 millio
Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my opening statement, i want to recognize melinda bikini, we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success shes made there when we were out in nih a few days ago, and we are glad youre here and i was just told that the youngest of your six children just got their drivers license so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that and we were glad to have a chance to meet with her, glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts that i think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable. The 7. 5 billion cut from nih would according to analysts, this funding would cost nearly 90,000 jobs nationwide, result in 15. 3 billion of lost economic activity. In my home state of missouri that equates to a loss of nearly 1,700 jobs and 292 millio