President Trump has proposed slashing the budget for the National Institutes of Health by 20 percent. That could lead to extensive cuts to research programs, including one that helps patients with rare and mysterious diseases. We visited a young man in Whittier, outside Los Angeles, who has been struggling with a baffling set of symptoms for years. When no one else had answers, his family turned to the NIH program.
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