The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Peter M. Grollman, vice president of CHOP’s Office of Government Affairs, Community Relations, and Advocacy recently penned a powerful editorial on Philly.com arguing that tepid government support for medical researchers demands a personal response from voters.
Every new medicine, medical technology, or treatment we rely on today ‚ones that we take for granted when we walk into a pharmacy to fill a prescription or to purchase pain relievers‚ stems from one collective source: research.
Sequestration - it's a word we've sure heard a lot lately. The automatic, across-the-board federal budget cuts have the potential to significantly impact myriad government agencies and programs. Not only will sequestration affect the likes of defense spending, education, national security and other initiatives, but the cuts will also affect scientific research through cuts in funding to the National Institutes
