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6 days ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
Cancer. Heart disease. Diabetes. Youth suicide. Dementia. Alcoholism. Respiratory viruses. Air pollution. These are among the gravest threats to public health, yet research into their causes and cures are being paid for with federal research grants that are rapidly vanishing as the Trump administration continues its assault on the nation’s biomedical research apparatus. A study released Thursday by researchers at Yale and Harvard provides the most comprehensive accounting yet of the scope of those cuts.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
“The bottom fell out of me,” Henderson said. “I had to live with the guilt that I had killed my own father.”Devastated, Henderson forged a new path. He is now free from his addiction and among hundreds of former users joining the ranks of , nonmedical experts who rely on their past experiences to motivate clients to keep away from alcohol and drugs.
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4 weeks ago | 
statnews.com | Chris Serres
Harvard University is urging researchers whose grants are frozen by the Trump administration to immediately cease hiring, limit spending to “essential needs only,” and pause all active equipment purchases, according to internal guidance from a top administrator at the university.
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4 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
Harvard University urged researchers whose grants are frozen by the Trump administration to immediately cease hiring, limit spending to “essential needs only” and pause all active equipment purchases, according to internal guidance from a top administrator at the university.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jonathan Saltzman |Chris Serres
Since President Trump’s first week in office, Harvard-affiliated hospitals, like all federal grant recipients, have been facing a late April deadline to pledge they have no “illegal” diversity, equity, or inclusion programs to keep receiving federal grants. That executive order threw uncertainty over many efforts that took years to build aimed at diversifying the ranks of doctors and improving different communities’ access to health care.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres |Liz Kowalczyk |Jonathan Saltzman |Mike Damiano |Neena Hagen
The review includes $255.6 million in contracts and $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments, according to the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force. According to current and former administrators at Harvard and affiliated institutions, as well as members of the Trump task force, the review appears to encompass all active federal research grants and contracts to Harvard and its affiliates.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Robert Weisman |Chris Serres |Kay Lazar
The latest cuts will affect research programs awarded at least $70 million at MGB hospitals’ labs over multiple years, with most of that money already paid but at least $18 million still untapped, a federal document showed, freezing multiple research programs, some in collaboration with other labs within Harvard and at other institutions. But many of the program cuts reported by researchers haven’t yet been disclosed publicly, meaning the actual dollar loss is likely to be higher.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
Massachusetts would impose strict new limits on online sports betting and ban sports gambling operators from running advertisements during televised events, under an expansive bill introduced by three state Democratic lawmakers. The legislation, called the Sports Bettor Health Act, is designed to rein in the runaway growth of sports betting in Massachusetts and ban industry practices that some public health advocates have described as highly addictive.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
At 5:30 pm last Friday afternoon, Brittany Charlton felt a surge of dread as she stared at two emails from the . Just six months earlier, Charlton founded a research center at Harvard to improve the health of LGBTQ people through science, and to cultivate future generations of leaders in the field. It was a crowning achievement of her 20-year academic career. In an instant, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical research had eviscerated her budget.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres
Steven Aoki has almost no memory of how he ended up in a Mass General Brigham emergency department bed, with IV tubes attached to his body, on a September morning in 2023. What he does remember is the excruciating abdominal pain, the nausea, and the fear that he would have to confess to doctors that his symptoms were brought on by a decade of excessive alcohol consumption — a bottle-a-day habit that was destroying his liver.
