Updated 3:06pm 31 May 2012

Research to suffer

MEDICAL research will suffer unless funding charities get help to weather the economic downturn, it was claimed last night.

A survey showed that more than three- quarters of the UK’s 117 leading medical research charities expected the recession to have an impact on their work.

Half intended to peg research funding at the same level as last year, while a quarter planned cut-backs.

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