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Lifecycle of a research grant – behind the scenes of the system that funds science

Science funding is a hot topic these days and people have questions about how grants work. Who decides whether a researcher will receive funds? What’s the decision-making process? How is the money spent once a grant proposal has been approved?

The Conversation · May 22, 2025

How To Maximize Your Healthspan For A Better Lifespan (3 of 3)

  Today, we will look at ways to improve your healthspan and, by extension, your lifespan. Let’s begin with ways to DIY your healthspan. Healthspan...

Saving Advice · May 21, 2025

Dealing with disease “down there”

Joe Biden did more for cancer research than any president in recent memory

Salon · May 21, 2025

Kennedy defends budget request but is silent on big HHS changes - Roll Call

Lawmakers seek answers to questions about sweeping cuts to federal public health infrastructure but Kennedy stays mum.

Roll Call · May 14, 2025

Science requires ethical oversight – without federal dollars, society’s health and safety are at risk

As the Trump administration continues to make significant cuts to NIH budgets and personnel and to freeze billions of dollars of funding to major research universities – citing ideological concerns – there’s more being threatened than just progress in science and medicine. Something valuable but often overlooked is also being…

The Conversation · May 9, 2025

‘Get rid of the pseudoscience’: top doctor’s plan to improve America’s health

Eric Topol says we can prevent age-related disease and live fuller lives – but only if we reject anti-science ‘malarkey’

The Guardian - US · May 8, 2025

RFK Jr. announces controversial plan to research autism with Medicare and Medicaid data lists

Comes as Kennedy continues his efforts to find the cause of the ‘autism epidemic’

The Independent UK · May 7, 2025

Trump betting on old vaccine tech

It's in sharp contrast to Operation Warp Speed, which led to the creation of the COVID vaccines

Salon · May 6, 2025

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

“We had taken 15 years to build what was destroyed with a single email, halting vital research across the country.”

Fortune · May 5, 2025

Trump's Budget Calls for $17 Billion Cut to NIH, Citing Lax Oversight of Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan

The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."

Reason · May 2, 2025