Since 2003, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for scientific and medical research has decreased steadily (after adjusting for inflation),1"3 which has created plenty of criticism and scorn within academic and scientific communities across the USA. Competition for scarce grant funding has skyrocketed,4 graduate interest in investigative research has decreased, and thousands of researchers have lost their jobs. This has slowed scientific progress and has introduced numerous challenges to US medical research. For most developing countries, though, the effects seem to be drastically different.
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