Court Battle Over NIH Funding Cuts Resumes Friday Federal judge in Massachusetts to review legal battle over Trump administration's medical research funding cuts, impacting research projects and jobs natio... Top News · Feb 21, 2025
Huge cuts in National Institutes of Health research funding go before a federal judge A court battle is set to resume over the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2025
Critics say Trump’s executive orders to reshape the NIH ‘will kill’ Americans Executive orders’ impact on premier medical research agency has resulted in delayed projects and frozen funding The Guardian - US · Feb 20, 2025
Federal Employees Rally Against Funding Cuts And Firings Federal employees rally against firings and budget cuts impacting public health, stressing the importance of research funding. Top News · Feb 20, 2025
NIH funding cuts are Trump’s latest attack on education, professors say The Trump administration announced it would cap ‘indirect funding’ from the National Institutes of Health at 15% The Guardian - US · Feb 20, 2025
Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research The Guardian - US · Feb 19, 2025
Agency firings prompt worries about preparedness, FDA inspectors - Roll Call Days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as HHS secretary, health agencies including the FDA, NIH and CDC saw sweeping workforce cuts. Roll Call · Feb 19, 2025
‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis Republican-run states may see worst fallout from slashes to NIH medical funding as maternal mortality climbs in US The Guardian - US · Feb 15, 2025
Thousands Of Federal Health Workers Expected To Be Cut Federal health workers, including CDC and NIH employees, face job cuts under the Trump administration, impacting critical public health programs. Top News · Feb 14, 2025
Aaron Sibarium: Is DEI Over? The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium discusses the various slashes the Trump administration has made to DEI projects and USAID. Reason · Feb 13, 2025
NIH Deputy Director Retires, Raising Concerns Among Colleagues Dr. Michael Lauer, NIH deputy director for extramural research, announces retirement. Uncertainty surrounds recent retirements at NIH. Top News · Feb 13, 2025
Red states have a lot to lose from medical research funding cuts. Some GOP leaders are worried Universities and research institutions rely on federal dollars from the NIH. But don’t expect Republicans to cross Elon Musk The Independent UK · Feb 12, 2025
NIH Deputy Director Retires Abruptly, Leaving Colleagues Stunned Dr. Lawrence Tabak's sudden retirement from NIH raises questions amidst policy changes and legal challenges. Top News · Feb 12, 2025
Trump White House’s disengagement from HIV/AIDS response could have lethal consequences With the endless stream of announcements, reversals, measures and countermeasures coming from the new administration of United States President Donald Trump, it has become difficult to make sense of what is just noise or opening negotiation offers and what constitutes actual policy change. The Conversation · Feb 12, 2025
The Conversation · Feb 12, 2025 West Africans have a high risk of kidney disease – new study confirms genetic cause Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a huge burden of kidney healthcare costs among black people all over the world.
The Conversation · Feb 12, 2025 How much does scientific progress cost? Without government dollars for research infrastructure, breakthroughs become improbable Biomedical research in the U.S. is world-class in part because of a long-standing partnership between universities and the federal government.
The Guardian - US · Feb 11, 2025 Judge blocks Trump from cutting billions in medical research funding Major universities and 22 states sued over administration’s proposal to slash National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants
Top News · Feb 11, 2025 Judge Halts Trump Administration Directive On Research Grant Overhead Costs U.S. District Court Judge halts Trump administration's directive capping overhead costs for federally funded research projects.
Top News · Feb 11, 2025 Scientists Launch New Journal To Combat Medical Research Gatekeeping The Journal of the Academy of Public Health (JAPH) promotes open scientific discourse and challenges censorship in medical research, focusing on COVID-19-r...
Reason · Feb 11, 2025 Will Trump and the New GOP Congress Get to the Bottom of COVID-19's Origin? It's a good sign that the president is calling on critics of the federal government's lack of transparency to staff his administration.
Salon · Feb 11, 2025 Musk bites the federal hand that fed him The billionaire should be writing a thank you note to Al Gore, not wrecking burgeoning developments
Top News · Feb 11, 2025 GOP Sen. Susan Collins To Support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senator Collins endorses Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS Secretary, expressing concerns about potential NIH budget cuts.
Top News · Feb 11, 2025 States Sue Trump Administration Over Public Health Research Funding Cuts 22 states challenge Trump administration's cuts to public health research funding, raising concerns over the future of scientific research.
The Texas Tribune · Feb 11, 2025 Texas universities could face funding cuts for health care research under new Trump administration policy A federal judge blocked a new National Institutes of Health policy from going into effect in 22 states that sued the agency, but Texas wasn’t part of the suit.
Latin Times · Feb 10, 2025 22 States Sue Trump Administration Over 'Reckless and Illegal' NIH Research Funding Cuts Twenty-two states sue the Trump administration over abrupt NIH funding cuts, arguing the move threatens critical medical research and violates federal law.