Federal judge blocks drastic funding cuts to medical research A federal judge is preventing the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding The Independent UK · Mar 5, 2025
Trump Applauds 13-Year-Old Cancer Survivor After Slashing Funding for Pediatric Cancer Research President Donald Trump honored and applauded a young cancer survivor during his recent joint address to Congress despite his numerous attempts to cut funding for healthcare, including pediatric cancer research. Latin Times · Mar 5, 2025
Trump NIH nominee aims to soothe senators over embattled agency - Roll Call The Stanford health economist selected to lead the NIH has been criticized for his opposition to lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Roll Call · Mar 5, 2025
Trump’s budget cuts threaten AI research, top scientists warn Academic research into AI is at risk from President Trump's cost-cutting, critics say. Fortune · Mar 4, 2025
How do I stay healthy in my 70s? Today’s septuagenarians are different from the ones who came before, becoming grandparents and retiring later The Guardian - US · Mar 3, 2025
Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2025
Defaming Businesses Doesn't Protect Consumers If the Consumer Product Safety Commission doesn't have enough data to enact a rule, it shouldn't be making informal recommendations either. Reason · Feb 28, 2025
How Project 2025, which Trump disavowed, is shaping his health policies During his campaigning Trump denied he had read the right-wing wish list. Has he shifted his strategy? Al Jazeera · Feb 27, 2025
Experts warn of federal government brain drain that could be ‘devastating’ for the U.S. economy “It’s really a devastating way to manage a business, and it’s a devastating way to manage the government.” Fortune · Feb 26, 2025
Federal budget cuts threaten to decimate America’s AI superiority—and other countries are watching America’s future economic growth depends on federal research investment in AI and computing. Fortune · Feb 25, 2025
Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies The Guardian - US · Feb 23, 2025
DOGE shut the funding spigot for medical research overnight. Scientists are calling it 'the end of science' in America Scientists warn the private medical sector won’t see a boost after DOGE cuts public research funding and emphasizes an ‘imminent’ brain drain of scientists to China. Fortune · Feb 21, 2025
Court Battle Over NIH Funding Cuts Resumes Friday Federal judge in Massachusetts to review legal battle over Trump administration's medical research funding cuts, impacting research projects and jobs natio... Top News · Feb 21, 2025
Huge cuts in National Institutes of Health research funding go before a federal judge A court battle is set to resume over the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2025
The Guardian - US · Feb 20, 2025 Critics say Trump’s executive orders to reshape the NIH ‘will kill’ Americans Executive orders’ impact on premier medical research agency has resulted in delayed projects and frozen funding
Top News · Feb 20, 2025 Federal Employees Rally Against Funding Cuts And Firings Federal employees rally against firings and budget cuts impacting public health, stressing the importance of research funding.
The Guardian - US · Feb 20, 2025 NIH funding cuts are Trump’s latest attack on education, professors say The Trump administration announced it would cap ‘indirect funding’ from the National Institutes of Health at 15%
The Guardian - US · Feb 19, 2025 Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research
Roll Call · Feb 19, 2025 Agency firings prompt worries about preparedness, FDA inspectors - Roll Call Days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as HHS secretary, health agencies including the FDA, NIH and CDC saw sweeping workforce cuts.
The Guardian - US · Feb 15, 2025 ‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis Republican-run states may see worst fallout from slashes to NIH medical funding as maternal mortality climbs in US
Top News · Feb 14, 2025 Thousands Of Federal Health Workers Expected To Be Cut Federal health workers, including CDC and NIH employees, face job cuts under the Trump administration, impacting critical public health programs.
Reason · Feb 13, 2025 Aaron Sibarium: Is DEI Over? The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium discusses the various slashes the Trump administration has made to DEI projects and USAID.
Top News · Feb 13, 2025 NIH Deputy Director Retires, Raising Concerns Among Colleagues Dr. Michael Lauer, NIH deputy director for extramural research, announces retirement. Uncertainty surrounds recent retirements at NIH.
The Independent UK · Feb 12, 2025 Red states have a lot to lose from medical research funding cuts. Some GOP leaders are worried Universities and research institutions rely on federal dollars from the NIH. But don’t expect Republicans to cross Elon Musk
Top News · Feb 12, 2025 NIH Deputy Director Retires Abruptly, Leaving Colleagues Stunned Dr. Lawrence Tabak's sudden retirement from NIH raises questions amidst policy changes and legal challenges.