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One of the things we've committed to doing on this show during Trump's first 100 days is a health and climate Tuesdays section of the show.

This builds on and expands the climate story of the week that we had been doing on Tuesdays the last two years.

Our thinking right now is that there are so many headlines

coming from the new administration.

We were just speaking about some of them with Andrew Weissman,

things that are pretty monumental on a daily basis

that health and climate ones risk getting lost in the shuffle.

Today we'll talk about the attacks

on the National Institutes of

Health and their implications for Americans' health in the space we've carved out for these issues.

And then later, what Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue for in a new book, which is a climate

policy based on abundance rather than scarcity, they'll explain. But the NIH first. The National Institutes

of Health is the world's single largest public funder of biomedical research. The agency spends most

of its $47 billion annual budget on developing new drugs and vaccines. Here are just some of its accomplishments

according to its own website and other sources. The American Cancer Society estimates

improvements in cancer treatment, many of which were funded and driven by the NIH, resulted in a 33%

drop in the cancer death rate since 1991.

NIH research has driven HIV testing and preventive interventions,

resulting in a more than 90% decrease in the number of U.S. babies born with HIV.

The agency played a major role in working to address the national opioid crisis by working to

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