For U.S. Medical Researchers, Shrinking Labs and Bare Budgets Are the New Reality

Every night, Katherine Burns wakes up in a sweat. She feels like the world is closing in on her.

Burns, 47, runs a laboratory at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine focused on endometriosis, a stigmatized, poorly understood gynecologic disease. She's not just intrigued by the complex interplay of the immune system and hormones that drive endometriosis but is one of the millions of American women who reportedly have it, suffering years of misdiagnosis, blackout levels of pain and infertility.

She's haunted by a terrifying prospect: the end of her research.

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