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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Anil Oza |Megan Molteni
Since taking office, President Trump has vowed to dismantle what he calls the “deep state” and “fire rogue bureaucrats.” His latest attempt to do so has garnered widespread pushback from scientists over concerns that the move will politicize decisions about federal funding for research on a scale never before seen in the U.S. The object of this anger is an Office of Personnel Management proposal that would reclassify broad swaths of federal bureaucrats as political appointees — making their...
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Anil Oza |Megan Molteni
Embattled universities whose funding from the National Institutes of Health has been frozen may face further financial strain as the agency holds off awarding new grants to at least half a dozen of them, according to an email obtained by STAT. The decision could mark the next stage of the Trump administration’s attempts to apply pressure to a suite of elite colleges and universities by withholding research dollars.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Megan Molteni |Jonathan Wosen |Anil Oza
A draft Trump administration budget for the Department of Health and Human Services leaked to reporters on Wednesday proposes a massive $20 billion cut for the National Institutes of Health in 2026 — roughly a 40% reduction — and a sweeping consolidation. Previous plans floated by Republican members of Congress have proposed restructuring the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into 15 revised ones.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tara Bannow |Anil Oza
This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. President Trump unveiled a wide-ranging executive order on Tuesday that aims to lower drug prices, boost transparency into fees charged by middlemen, and limit Medicare payments for outpatient services provided by hospitals. Much of the order would require further rulemaking or other actions to have any effect.
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1 month ago |
autism.einnews.com | Isabella Cueto |Tara Bannow |Anil Oza |O. Rose Broderick
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country will soon know what is causing a rise in autism rates, but there is little sign he has a team in place yet. Nearly two dozen prominent voices from mainstream autism research and in the anti-vaccine world said they have not been approached by Kennedy, and have no details about the proposed studies. On Wednesday, the health secretary appeared at a press conference alongside Walter Zahorodny, director of a New Jersey autism surveillance study.
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