{"id":3404,"date":"2025-02-20T20:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2025-02-20T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:05:03","slug":"opinion-the-assault-on-science-and-health-sometimes-its-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=3404","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Assault on Science and Health: Sometimes It\u2019s Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"


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To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Re \u201cDeep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets<\/a>\u201d (news article, Feb. 9):<\/p>\n

I have watched President Trump issue a flurry of executive orders with growing alarm, but none have hit quite as hard as his reckless decision to slash National Institutes of Health funding. Although a court temporarily blocked the cuts, I fear that the work of N.I.H. and university researchers is still in peril. The American people will suffer if lifesaving research and clinical trials are no longer available.<\/p>\n

Our family knows the value of this important work firsthand. My husband was part of multiple clinical trials at the N.I.H. to treat his prostate cancer. The team provided different treatments as needed, and they worked. He is now cancer-free, and we credit the N.I.H. for saving his life.<\/p>\n

I worry that in this climate, another family would not be as fortunate. Do members of the Trump administration realize that their actions affect individual lives, not just institutions? More important, do they even care?<\/p>\n

Marilyn Fenichel
Hamden, Conn.<\/p>\n

To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am not a scientific person. Nor am I highly political. But one thing I know as a breast cancer survivor is that my life and the lives of millions of other cancer survivors have been made possible through biomedical research funded by the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n