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Research institutions tout the value of scholarship that crosses disciplines – but academia pushes interdisciplinary researchers out

The most exciting landmark scientific achievements don’t happen without researchers sharing and collaborating with others outside their field. When people first landed on the Moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong’s first footsteps marked the realization of a century-long vision that integrated a variety of scientific fields. Landing on the Moon required…

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‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives

From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States.

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Former NIH scientist sues Trump administration, claims illegal firing over research cuts

A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health has sued the Trump administration, saying she was illegally fired for warning that research cuts were endangering patients and public health

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How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a summer job.

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What Stress Really Does to the Brain: The Science of Cortisol and Its Hidden Mental Effects

Stress changes brain structure, memory, and emotions. Learn how cortisol reshapes the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala—and what these effects mean long-term.

Medical Daily

Sleep problems and depression can be a vicious cycle, especially during pregnancy − here’s why it’s important to get help

Imagine you got a rough night of sleep. Perhaps you went to bed too late, needed to wake up early or still felt tired when you woke up from what should have been a full night’s sleep.

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The Ivies can weather the Trump administration’s research cuts – it’s the nation’s public universities that have the most to lose

Most of the media coverage of the federal government’s recent cuts in federal research money for universities has focused on its effects on a handful of elite Ivy League universities, such as Harvard, Columbia and Cornell.

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Newly discovered link between traumatic brain injury in children and epigenetic changes could help personalize treatment for recovering kids

A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, according to our research in the Journal of Neurotrauma.

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Government Research Cuts Hit Older Adults

The Trump administration has slashed funding for medical research, delaying some treatments and cures for health conditions affecting retirees.

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Florida residents’ anxiety is linked to social media use and varies with age, new study shows

Over 40 million American adults – approximately 19% – live with an anxiety disorder, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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Over 74,000 Trial Participants Affected By Government Funding Cuts To National Institutes Of Health

A recent surge in terminations of research grants by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is severely disrupting the landscape of critical clinical research, affecting an estimated 1 in 30 trials and involving over 74,000 participants.

Benzinga

Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change

If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.

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Silent but not serene: what science says about nitrogen death

With each breath, four out of every five molecules we inhale are nitrogen. This colourless, odourless gas makes up nearly 80% of the air that sustains us – yet it plays no direct role in keeping us alive. This same inert gas is now being used to take life.

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SNAP benefit freeze will leave millions nationwide struggling to pay for food – including 472,711 people in Philadelphia

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is the largest, most effective tool the U.S. has to reduce food insecurity. As of late 2025, it helps more than 42 million people – including 2 million Pennsylvanians and nearly half a million Philadelphians – buy groceries.

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Yes, ADHD diagnoses are rising, but that doesn’t mean it’s overdiagnosed

Many news outlets have reported an increase – or surge – in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, diagnoses in both children and adults. At the same time, health care providers, teachers and school systems have reported an uptick in requests for ADHD assessments.

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Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning ‘metal-organic frameworks’

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs – along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation of a new class of crystalline materials. It recognized a revolution quietly reshaping how scientists capture, store and…

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How pollution and the microbiome interact with Tregs, the immune system regulators whose discovery was honored with the Nobel Prize

A special group of immune cells known as regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, became an overnight sensation when a trio of U.S. and Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Oct. 6, 2025, for their discovery and elucidation of these cells.

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Can Americans Trust RFK Jr.'s Health Advice? A Breakdown on Vaccines, Autism, Food Dyes, and More

As ever, be cautious about what you hear from the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Proposed cuts to NIH funding would have ripple effects on research that could hamper the US for decades

In May 2025, the White House proposed reducing the budget of the National Institutes of Health by roughly 40% – from about US$48 billion to $27 billion. Such a move would return NIH funding to levels last seen in 2007. Since NIH budget records began in 1938, NIH has seen…

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How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims

At a Sept. 4, 2025, hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced heated questions from numerous senators about his vaccine policies, including his stance on COVID-19 vaccines and mRNA vaccine technology generally.

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65,000 Pennsylvania kids have a parent in prison or jail − here’s what research says about the value of in-person visits

Across Pennsylvania, an estimated 65,459 children have a parent in jail or prison. That’s according to a recent email inquiry to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Nationwide, nearly half of adults have experienced a close family member being in jail or prison, and 1 in 14 children have lost a…

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How stripping diversity, equity and inclusion from health care may make Americans sicker

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically reshaped health and medical research by rolling back federal funding from institutions that have diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and by cutting federal funding for research projects that the administration considers related to DEI.

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Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it.

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Experts condemn NIH director’s defense of cut to vaccine research

Critics say Jay Bhattacharya’s comments on so-called failure of mRNA vaccines to ‘earn public trust’ are ‘astounding’

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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins of COVID.

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