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Fortune
Beth Greenfield

Medical researchers baffled by Trump administration's stop work order on system that makes clinical trials more efficient

Doctor looking at a screen as a patient gets ready for CT scan (Credit: Getty Images)

A national initiative used by 1,350 universities and academic medical centers to allow urgent clinical trials to move forward with speed, efficiency, and proper oversight has been handed a stop work order from the Trump administration. The move threatens to delay thousands of human studies on everything from cancer to dementia.

“We were told to cease all work…immediately,” an April 22 statement on its website reads, in part. “The order did not include a reason or explanation.”

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