Maggie Astor

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Maggie Astor |Azeen Ghorayshi |Dani Blum

People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remarks this week that autism "destroys" children have prompted outrage among many autistic people and their families. They said that they had done things he claimed were impossible - hold a job, write a poem, play baseball, go on a date - and added that the lives of people who did need help performing daily activities were still worthy of respect.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Maggie Astor

So far, grant recipients have been unable to get answers from direct contacts at N.I.H. about their funding, which they said would be difficult to replace, if not impossible. "There's nothing that comes close," Dr. Farzan said.

1 week ago | sfexaminer.com | Maggie Astor

With frequent and severe disasters repeatedly underscoring the dangers of climate change, scientists across the country have been working to understand the consequences for our hearts, lungs, brains and more -- and how to best mitigate them. The work has relied largely on hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. But since Robert F.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Maggie Astor

Several laid-off employees argued that centralization would compromise the quality of information by sacrificing the subject-matter expertise of longtime communications employees in specific agencies. "It's doing a disservice to the public," said Chanapa Tantibanchachai, who was an F.D.A. spokeswoman until she was laid off on Tuesday. She said the agency's entire press office had been laid off. "It's not in service of 'radical transparency' like Secretary Kennedy says," she added.

3 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Maggie Astor

LOS ANGELES - In January, hundreds of firefighters fanned across Los Angeles County to fight the Palisades and Eaton blazes as they tore through heavily populated communities, killing more than two dozen people and destroying thousands of buildings. Days after their work, some of those firefighters had elevated levels of lead and mercury inside cells in their blood - amounts higher than those found in colleagues who had fought earlier forest fires in less populated areas.