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Thanks to Michele Locker for this contribution! From the New York Times Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization. By  Teddy Rosenbluth  and  Emily Anthes Dec. 1, 2024 The National Institutes of Health, the world’s leading public funder of biomedical research, has an enviable track record. Research supported by the agency has led to more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported  more than 99 percent of the drugs approved  by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019. No surprise, then, that the agency has been called “the crown jewel of the federal government.” But come January, when President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans take charge, the N.I.H. may face a reckoning. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new administration’s selection for secretary of the Department of Healt...