Meredith Wadman
Reporter at Science Magazine
Reporter at Science magazine (but opinions my own.) Author of "The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease."
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1 day ago |
science.org | Jocelyn Kaiser |Sara Reardon |Meredith Wadman
In what may foreshadow billions in further research funding cuts, President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health (NIH) effort centered on the health needs of women.
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6 days ago |
science.org | Meredith Wadman
President Donald Trump’s administration wants to cut nearly in half the $47 billion budget of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and reorganize the agency’s 27 institutes and centers into just eight institutes, according to a leaked version of a near-final 2026 budget proposal obtained by Science. That plan, however, must pass muster with Congress—historically a strong bipartisan supporter of the agency—if it is to become reality.
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1 week ago |
science.org | Meredith Wadman
At a press conference today in downtown Washington, D.C., Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his contention that an “environmental” toxin or toxins have sent autism rates soaring in the United States, and he further described plans for his recently announced initiative to discover such purported causes.
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1 week ago |
science.org | Meredith Wadman
The eight-person team behind what’s considered the bible of contraceptive care among physicians was fired as part of the mass job cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this month. The dismissals throw into jeopardy the future of the key reference that health care providers rely on to guide patients to the safest and most effective contraceptives.
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2 weeks ago |
science.org | Meredith Wadman
Little noticed among the casualties of last week’s mass firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the group of scientists who researched traumatic brain injury (TBI) at CDC’s injury center. All five lost their jobs. The small team at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control was a nexus of research, surveillance, and public guidance on brain injuries from all causes, including violence, sports, and falls.
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The #TraumaticBrainInjury unit at the Centers for Disease Control was wiped out in last week's firings. @NewsfromScience looks at what was lost. https://t.co/MNoQjBne2I...
Important, overlooked attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @NewsfromScience 's @jocelynkaiser NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS https://t.co/yJXQ6HjxuV
Exclusively from @NewsfromScience: ‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit | Science | AAAS https://t.co/XylxCFztDx