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RFK Jr. Denigrates Privately Funded Medical Research

The Trump administration has cut billions in federal funding for medical research, as Kennedy singles out private funders for criticism.

Reason

RFK Jr wants to ban government scientists from publishing in top journals and instead create a MAGA-backed publication

Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary claims world-renowned medical journals are ‘corrupt’

The Independent UK

RFK Jr Issues Ultimatum to Medical Journals: 'Change Dramatically' or Fed Scientists Will Publish Elsewhere

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. threatened top medical journals, warning that NIH scientists could be barred from publishing in what he called "corrupt" publications

Latin Times

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‘They’re all corrupt!’: RFK Jr. threatens to pull government scientists from top medical journals

Losing scientists one day at a time.

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RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals

US health secretary calls leading medical journals such as Lancet ‘corrupt’ and pushes to create state-run alternatives

The Guardian - US

Woman’s life-saving treatment delayed by Trump cuts to NIH: ‘Cancer shouldn’t be political’

Natalie Phelps, who has stage 4 colorectal cancer, has raised the alarm over how patients in the agency’s clinical trials are facing setbacks in treatment

The Guardian - US

RFK Jr drops Covid-19 boosters for kids and pregnant women from CDC list

The move ends the CDC’s booster recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women, bypassing norms

The Guardian - US

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Trump is killing the goose that laid America’s golden eggs

U.S. competitiveness has always depended on its universities' openness to talent and commitment to research.

Fortune

Decades on SSRIs remain mired in mystery

Experts worry MAHA could wage a war on SSRIs. But some researchers have long questioned the drugs’ efficacy

Salon

Is Donald Trump To Blame for a COVID Lab Leak?

Criticisms of the president's alleged flip-flopping on gain-of-function research funding miss some key context.

Reason

Lifecycle of a research grant – behind the scenes of the system that funds science

Science funding is a hot topic these days and people have questions about how grants work. Who decides whether a researcher will receive funds? What’s the decision-making process? How is the money spent once a grant proposal has been approved?

The Conversation

How To Maximize Your Healthspan For A Better Lifespan (3 of 3)

Today, we will look at ways to improve your healthspan and, by extension, your lifespan. Let’s begin with ways to DIY your healthspan. Healthspan...

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Dealing with disease “down there”

Joe Biden did more for cancer research than any president in recent memory

Salon

Senate appropriators grill Kennedy on biomedical research - Roll Call

Senators spar with Kennedy on cuts to biomedical research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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Eisenhower Warned Us About the 'Scientific Elite'

The Trump administration's plans to slash science funding could end up liberating researchers from the corrupting influence Dwight Eisenhower warned about.

The Guardian - US

The ick factor that could save a life: US cancer researchers look to fecal waste for treatment clues

The Mayo Clinic hopes to uncover how the microbiome affects how patients react to cancer medications

LiveScience

New CRISPR alternative can 'install' whole genes, paving the way to treatment for many genetic disorders

A new gene editor takes advantage of CRISPR-associated proteins to insert whole genes into the genome, scientists report.

Roll Call

Kennedy defends budget request but is silent on big HHS changes - Roll Call

Lawmakers seek answers to questions about sweeping cuts to federal public health infrastructure but Kennedy stays mum.

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The Conversation

Science requires ethical oversight – without federal dollars, society’s health and safety are at risk

As the Trump administration continues to make significant cuts to NIH budgets and personnel and to freeze billions of dollars of funding to major research universities – citing ideological concerns – there’s more being threatened than just progress in science and medicine. Something valuable but often overlooked is also being…

The Guardian - US

‘Get rid of the pseudoscience’: top doctor’s plan to improve America’s health

Eric Topol says we can prevent age-related disease and live fuller lives – but only if we reject anti-science ‘malarkey’

The Independent UK

RFK Jr. announces controversial plan to research autism with Medicare and Medicaid data lists

Comes as Kennedy continues his efforts to find the cause of the ‘autism epidemic’

Salon

Trump betting on old vaccine tech

It's in sharp contrast to Operation Warp Speed, which led to the creation of the COVID vaccines

Fortune

Medical researchers baffled by Trump administration's stop work order on system that makes clinical trials more efficient

“We had taken 15 years to build what was destroyed with a single email, halting vital research across the country.”

Reason

Trump's Budget Calls for $17 Billion Cut to NIH, Citing Lax Oversight of Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan

The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."

Roll Call

At HHS, proposed cuts to medical research and public health programs - Roll Call

The White House on Friday proposed a fiscal 2026 HHS budget that backs the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda of President Donald Trump.

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