Favor ver la petición que será enviada al congreso. HELP PRESERVE NIH FUNDING We encourage you to review the online petition developed by the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research. It is available at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/preservenihfunding/. More than 15,000 individuals have signed this online petition opposing the House plan to cut $1.6 billion (5.2 percent) from the NIH budget in the current fiscal year. Signing the petition to support research takes only a few moments. Please consider doing so now! Recognizing the crucial importance to our members of federal support of research through the NIH, as well as other agencies, advocating for increased funding for research is one of our the main public policy activities. Please click on the link above and support research. Thank you. ************************************** Congress: Don't Cut Life-saving Funding for the National Institutes of Health We the undersigned, who include patients, scientists, health care providers, and supporters of medical research, implore you not to cut life-saving funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The nation’s health and economic vitality have benefited from the longstanding, bipartisan commitment to NIH-supported medical research at more than 3,000 medical schools, teaching hospitals, universities, and other research institutions in every state. Cutting NIH funding will immediately halt promising research on new approaches to diagnose, prevent, and treat disease while simultaneously eliminating jobs across the country as global competitors continue to invest aggressively in science to strengthen their own economies. Worse, it is a devastating blow to the millions of patients that rely every day on NIH for the possibility of a healthier tomorrow and to the next generation of promising U.S. scientists. For the health of the American people and the American economy, do not cut funding for the National Institutes of Health.