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NIH executive fired amid allegations of steering $3.3 million contract to company that named his wife as a potential staffer

Army veteran Eric Schnabel was hired to help lead the NIH in April

The Independent UK

NIH under fire for funding dog tests despite vow to cut animal research

Watchdog says NIH approved $12m in new dog studies months after pledge to reduce animal testing

The Guardian - US

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines

Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

The Guardian - US

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Inside RFK Jr’s conflicted attempt to rid America of junk food

‘Maha’ promised to tackle ultra-processed foods – but is it hijacking the food movement instead?

The Guardian - US

EPA employees put names to 'declaration of dissent' over agency moves under Trump

A group of Environmental Protection Agency employees has published a declaration of dissent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over the agency's leadership and policies

The Independent UK

Trump’s ‘Trans Mice’ Line Got Laughs. The Science Behind It Could Save Lives.

Research on HIV, cancer and infertility is being quietly dismantled under Trump’s anti-DEI agenda.

Capital & Main

Cancer experts alarmed over ‘gut-wrenching’ Trump plan to cut research spending by billions

More people will die due to White House’s plans to slash nearly $2.7bn from National Cancer Institute, workers warn

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Amid alarm over a US ‘autism registry’, people are using these tactics to avoid disability surveillance – podcast

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. caused controversy in April by promising to find the cause for autism by September. Claims by the new US secretary for health and human services that autism is a “preventable disease” with an environmental cause, contradict a body of research that suggests autism is caused by…

The Conversation

More than half of US teens have had at least one cavity, but fluoride programs in schools help prevent them – new research

Programs delivering fluoride varnish in schools significantly reduce cavities in children. That is a key finding of our recently published study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The Conversation

DOGE cuts to the IRS will cost $500 billion in lost revenue, watchdog finds

DOGE ‘destroyed, diminished or jeopardized’ billions of dollars in returns on government investments, CREW discovered

The Independent UK

Trump officials cutting $1bn in NIH grants is ‘void and illegal’, judge rules

Judge says cuts represent unlawful ‘racial discrimination’ and orders grants given to those that filed suit be reinstated

The Guardian - US

Judge deems some of Trump’s National Institutes of Health grant cuts illegal

The Reagan-appointed judge said he had “never seen” such “palpable" racial discrimination in his 40 years on the bench

The Independent UK

US judge declares Trump’s cuts to NIH grants ‘illegal’

Federal judge on bench for 40 years lambasts grant terminations as ‘racist’ and anti-LGBTQ.

Al Jazeera

How Trump Is Changing Higher Education: The View from UT-San Antonio

Around the country, university students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities, and fears for international students’ safety.

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The Guardian - UK

‘I don’t want my boy to be positive’: pregnant women face sky-high viral loads as cuts hit HIV care in Africa

As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in South Africa, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus

The Guardian - US

Who are the eight new vaccine advisers appointed by Robert F Kennedy?

US health secretary announced new members for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, after firing all 17 experts who held the post

The Conversation

Federal R&D funding boosts productivity for the whole economy − making big cuts to such government spending unwise

Large cuts to government-funded research and development can endanger American innovation – and the vital productivity gains it supports.

Salon

Scientists decry NIH cuts

A letter signed by hundreds of scientists says there is "a culture of fear and suppression" at NIH

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Fortune

'We dissent': NIH workers protest Trump policies that 'harm the health of Americans'

Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency.

Roll Call

‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’ - Roll Call

In a letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on Monday, NIH workers said they felt “compelled to speak up" about research cuts.

The Independent UK

NIH scientists go public to criticize Trump's deep cuts in public health research

Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission

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Before-And-After Photos Of Woman, 53, Go Viral After She Transforms Into Bodybuilding Champion

A 53-year-old from Brazil shocks social media with jaw-dropping transformation photos and inspirational messages to her thousands of fans

The Conversation

Our trans health study was terminated by the government – the effects of abrupt NIH grant cuts ripple across science and society

Given the Trump administration’s systematic attempts to medically and legally disenfranchise trans people, and its abrupt termination of grants focused on LGBTQ+ health, we can’t say that the notice of termination we received regarding our federally funded research on transgender and nonbinary people’s health was unexpected.

Reason

RFK Jr. Denigrates Privately Funded Medical Research

The Trump administration has cut billions in federal funding for medical research, as Kennedy singles out private funders for criticism.

The Independent UK

RFK Jr wants to ban government scientists from publishing in top journals and instead create a MAGA-backed publication

Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary claims world-renowned medical journals are ‘corrupt’

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