When the White House released President Biden’s 2025 budget requests this week, funding for biomedical research was stagnant. The more conservative wishlist from the president acknowledges a reduced appetite in Congress for non-defense government spending.
But some disease groups, along with their research allies, are undeterred. A growing number are calling for increased research funding and the creation of a new body at the National Institutes of Health to study chronic conditions that spring from infections.
The pitch comes on the heels of a major jump in awareness of post-infection chronic conditions, like long Covid, during the pandemic. And while it could go nowhere — several bureaucratic hoops must be jumped — the proposal concretizes some of the concerns and demands of tens of thousands of Americans who have little-understood, little-investigated conditions.
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