Vashington Shington – A health economist who interrogated the Senate in a collision with the National Institute Health for Health officials on Wednesday. Nomination for the head of that agency.
Professor of Stanford University Dr. Now he is about to become director of the NIH, the long -term crown gem of the government, as it faces collective firing and has to face. Cutbacks of hard funds.
After a meeting with Bhattacharya last month, he wrote on X, Senate Health Committee Chairman, Louisiana’s Sen. Bill Kasidi wrote on X after meeting with Bhattacharya last month, Louisiana’s Sen. Bill Kasidi wrote.
But he is angry with the Democrats that the biggest funding of the country’s medical research threatens the upheaval therapy and the development of new treatment.
Sen. of the state of Washington. “It is very important that we have a leader in NIH who will remain the role of the agency as the leader of the world in life -saving research.”
Until recently, Billion had bilateral support for $ 48 billion NIH. NIH Vijay .NoCo conducts cutting edge in 27 organizations specializing in diseases such as cancer, heart, lung and kidney disease, aging and Alzheimer’s in its 27 bodies. Most of the agency’s budget has been dispersed by very competitive grants in universities, hospitals and other research groups to run everything from basic research to clinical trials.
The NIH has played a part in the development of funds funded U.S. in recent years Most of the treatment has been allowed.
Bhattacharya attracted the attention of the people as one of the three authors of the Great Barington announcement, in an open letter on October 2020 said that the epidemic causes appropriate harm to not fill the shutdown and argued that people with low risk of Kovid -19 should generally increase immunity.
At that time – before the vaccination began – that point of view was accepted by some people in the first Trump administration, but was widely condemned by infectious disease specialists. Then NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins It is dangerous and “mainstream. No.”
Bhattacharya became a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, Idol Vs. Missouri, As part of the government’s efforts to fight false information, he argued that he was “unjustly censured” on social media. When this case attracts national attention, it was eventually unsuccessful in the verdict of -3–3.
Bhattacharya has a medical degree but is not a practicing physician. Their own research on health care economics has been funded by the NIH.
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