Report warns that flat NIH funding choking nation’s young researchers

Continued flat funding of the National Institutes of Health threatens a generation of researchers and the fate of American healthcare, warned officials from a prominent teaching hospital and six research institutions that included Ohio State University. The group issued a report, "A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk," which chronicles the struggle of a dozen junior researchers had securing funding for medical research.