Robert Weisman

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Robert Weisman

This story originally appeared in STAT’s sister publication, The Boston Globe. The deepening Trump administration budget cuts have hit Mass General Brigham, the nation’s largest hospital recipient of research grants, and other Massachusetts universities and hospitals, canceling tens of millions in funding and shutting down medical research programs in areas such as primary care, reproductive health, and pandemic preparedness.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Robert Weisman

The question looms large for millions of working Americans: Will Social Security be there when I retire? Jim Roosevelt would like to reassure people that it will. But he sees “a direct threat to the most popular government program that has ever existed” as the Trump administration cuts staff, closes offices, and has made moves, which it later reversed, making it harder to transact Social Security business by phone.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Robert Weisman

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s plan to build a new $1.7 billion, 300-bed cancer hospital in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area won a key state approval Thursday, despite a Mass General Brigham plea to scale back the project.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Robert Weisman

“It’s the circle of life,” Joan Bartinelli, a retired day-care administrator sporting Red Sox earrings, says of the players. “You watch the young kids, and they’re trying so hard, and you’re just rooting for them.”A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. The beating heart of the spring training crowd is the retirees, graying baby boomers who raised families and climbed career ladders up north.