Aria Bendix

New York

Breaking Health Reporter at NBC News

Breaking health reporter @NBCNews. Previously @thisisinsider @TheAtlantic.

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Trump administration cut more than $1.8 billion in NIH grants

6 days ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix

The Trump administration terminated $1.81 billion in National Institutes of Health grants in less than 40 days, including $544 million in as-yet-unspent funds. That’s according to an analysis published Thursday in JAMA, which relies on data from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System.
Mysterious brain diseases in Canada weren’t a mystery after all

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix

Six years ago, a Canadian neurologist claimed to notice strange symptoms in a cluster of patients in New Brunswick, a province bordering Maine. According to the neurologist, Dr. Alier Marrero, the patients suffered hallucinations, spasms, rapid memory loss and the sensation that bugs were crawling underneath their skin, but their symptoms and brain scans didn’t neatly fit an existing diagnosis. In other words, the cases were a mystery.
Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix

The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of infections in health care facilities. The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow. Four committee members said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delivered the news about HICPAC’s termination to members on Friday.
20 state attorneys general sue Trump administration to restore health agencies

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix

Twenty state attorneys general sued the Trump administration on Monday over its mass firings and the dismantling of agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services. The lawsuit, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleges that the administration violated hundreds of laws and bypassed congressional authority by endeavoring to consolidate the number of HHS agencies from 28 to 15 and initiating layoffs of around 20,000 employees.
Some federal workers focused on 'black lung' screenings reinstated but still face June termination

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix |Jacob Soboroff |Diane Shamis |Jason Kane

The Trump administration plans to terminate federal workers focused on preventing and responding to work-related illnesses, including "black lung" disease in coal miners, according to an internal government memo obtained by NBC News, despite in recent days reinstating some who had been let go.
New research contradicts RFK Jr.’s claim that severe autism cases are rising

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Aria Bendix

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the government’s new autism findings this month, he painted a grim and highly controversial picture: Not only was autism becoming more prevalent, he said, but “most cases now are severe.”The notion that severe symptoms are becoming more common isn’t substantiated by scientific evidence.
Health program for 9/11 illnesses faces uncertain future after federal staffing cuts

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix

More than 23 years after the Twin Towers collapsed, blanketing lower Manhattan in toxic dust and debris, the number of people diagnosed with 9/11-related illnesses is still growing. Since 2011, the main resource for people exposed to the fumes has been the World Trade Center Health Program, which covers treatment for cancer, asthma and post-traumatic stress disorder, among other health conditions.
The fertility rate was stable in 2024, but it's still near record lows

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix

As the Trump administration renews its focus on declining birth rates in the U.S., new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that births were fairly stable in 2024, rising 1% over the year prior. There were 3,622,673 births in the U.S. last year, according to a CDC report released Wednesday. Overall, the number of births declined by 2% per year, on average, from 2015 through 2020 and fluctuated in the years since, according to the report.
White House replaces Covid resource page with website supporting lab leak theory

3 weeks ago | today.com | Aria Bendix

/ Source: NBC NewsBy Anyone who tried to access Covid.gov, a federal website once dedicated to Covid resources, found something drastically different in its place Friday. The page now redirects to a White House website suggesting that Covid originated in a research laboratory in Wuhan, China, before infecting humans. This much-debated “lab leak theory” emerged in the early days of the pandemic and has since gained popularity among some right-wing media outlets and conservative politicians.
White House replaces Covid resource page with lab leak website

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix

Anyone who tried to access Covid.gov, a federal website once dedicated to Covid resources, found something drastically different in its place Friday. The page now redirects to a White House website suggesting that Covid originated in a research laboratory in Wuhan, China, before infecting humans. This much-debated “lab leak theory” emerged in the early days of the pandemic and has since gained popularity among some right-wing media outlets and conservative politicians.

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