{
  "id": 8881931,
  "title": "Opinion: STAT+: The NIH budget should be $100 billion per year",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/opinion-stat-the-nih-budget-should-be-100-billion-per-year",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-21T08:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "STAT News",
    "slug": "stat-news",
    "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/21/nih-budget-double-100-billion-reed-jobs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of daraxonrasib, a novel therapeutic for pancreatic cancer, marks a significant breakthrough in the field. Developed by Revolution Medicines, this drug specifically targets the KRAS oncogene, which is found in the majority of pancreatic cancer cases and is often indicative of a terminal prognosis. Despite decades of research, KRAS has remained a formidable challenge to treat due to its complex molecular structure. However, daraxonrasib has demonstrated remarkable efficacy in a clinical trial, where it nearly doubled the survival rate in previously treated patients with KRAS mutations. This development could provide new hope for a population of patients who previously had few options, transforming a once-certain death sentence into a condition with a significantly improved prognosis.",
  "summary": "“We should be strengthening our investment in the NIH, not dismantling it,” writes Reed Jobs.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}