The Booty Report

News and Updates for Swashbucklers Everywhere

Arrr, slashin' NIH doubloons be not battlin' disease, matey, 'tis a hearty surrender to Davy Jones' locker!

2025-03-10

Arrr, me hearties! Plottin’ to sink NIH doubloon hoards be a foul deed! Without their fine research, we'd be battlin' scurvy and plague like landlubbers! Let’s raise a tankard to our bounty of cures, for we should be puffin' our chests, not walkin' the plank! Yarrr!

Ahoy, mateys! Gather 'round and lend an ear to the tale of America's treasure trove o' scientific booty! With gold from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a mighty 90% of young scallywags with leukemia be cured, and wee babes born with cystic fibrosis now sail the seas of life long and hearty! 'Tis a fine time to be a patient, as the chance of kickin' the bucket from cancer be down by a whopping 34% since the days of old!

But, alas! Dark clouds be gatherin’, as proposed cuts to the NIH funding threaten our ship of medical advancement. A loss of at least $4 billion per year be loom’n like a fierce storm, casting shadows on our hopes for future breakthroughs. The goodly captains of research centers be alarmed, for such cuts could wreak havoc on patients and their kin.

The partnership between our public and private universities be a gem, attractin' the brightest minds and makin' our system the envy of the seven seas! Yet these proposed cuts would leave our noble vessels adrift, halting trials and sendin’ patients back to the bleak shores of hopelessness. So, let us not disrupt the fair winds of progress, but rather navigate together, chartin' a course towards fruitful collaboration and further victories in the name of health!

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