U.S. Funding For WHO’s International Agency For Research On Cancer Under Threat

POLITICO: Bad news for the bad-news agency
“As President Donald Trump raises the axe on U.S. medical research funding, scientists across the Atlantic are trembling, too. The World Health Organization’s cancer agency, the France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has long been a prime purveyor of bad news. Now, with big business blasting it as fake news and Republicans in total control, U.S. funding crucial for IARC’s work is under threat…” (Huet, 3/17).

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