Trials will stop enrolling new patients and work at the National Institutes of Health will come to a halt.
If the federal government does shut down this weekend, clinical trials will stop enrolling new patients and researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will have to put their studies on hold. Internal research at the agency involves thousands of scientists and hundreds of lab and animal facilities and consumes about ten percent of the NIH's $31 billion budget. Whether the involuntary hiatus will prove to be an inconvenient blip or a serious impediment to clinical research will depend on just how long the standstill lasts. Federally funded scientists working outside of NIH are unlikely to be greatly affected by a short shutdown.
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