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nytimes.com | Benjamin Mueller
More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May - nearly half of those terminated to date - covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.
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miamiherald.com | Benjamin Mueller |NYT Washington
The Trump administration has replaced the government’s main portal for information about COVID-19 with a website arguing that the virus leaked from a lab, throwing its weight behind a theory of the virus’s origins that is so far not backed by direct evidence and that many scientists consider less likely than the idea that it emerged at a wild-animal market.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Benjamin Mueller
Government websites that once provided basic information about the virus now redirect to a page citing a number of misleading or heavily contested claims.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Soumya Karlamangla |Benjamin Mueller
California, Massachusetts and 14 other states sued the Trump administration on Friday for withholding grant funding from public health and medical research institutions, cuts that have forced universities to curtail research and to delay the hiring of new staff. The National Institutes of Health is the world's leading public funder of biomedical research, supporting studies on aging, substance abuse and other major issues.
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nytimes.com | Benjamin Mueller
In recent weeks, members of the National Academy of Medicine, a nonprofit organization that provides independent health policy advice, began discussing their concerns with members of the national academies of sciences and engineering. Those conversations gave rise to the open letter, said Dr. Steven Woolf, an organizer of the letter who studies health policy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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2 months ago | 
autism.einnews.com | Benjamin Mueller |Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Trump’s Nominee for N.I.H. Chief Faces Questions From SenatorsJay Bhattacharya, a health economist, gained prominence during the Covid pandemic when he argued against lockdowns.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Benjamin Mueller |Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Jay Bhattacharya, a health economist, gained prominence during the Covid pandemic when he argued against lockdowns. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford economist, in 2023. Credit... Kenny Holston/The New York Times Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health economist who came to prominence crusading against lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic, faced questioning from the Senate health committee on Wednesday morning as President Trump's nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health.
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2 months ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Benjamin Mueller
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The Trump administration stormed into office, loudly firing workers and closing diversity programs. But behind the scenes, it has also brought biomedical research to the brink of crisis by holding up much of the $47 billion the United States spends on the field every year.The world’s leading medical labs can be found in the United States, and they rely on grants from the National Institutes of Health.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Benjamin Mueller
The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government's apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country's future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge's order to release grant money. The blockage, outlined in internal government memos, stems from an order forbidding health officials from giving public notice of upcoming grant review meetings.
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2 months ago | 
straitstimes.com | Benjamin Mueller
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Feb 14 ordered that federal funding be withheld from schools and universities that require students to be vaccinated against Covid-19, White House officials said, another step in the administration’s campaign against coronavirus vaccine requirements. It was not clear how widely impactful the order would be. No states require K-12 students to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
