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Cuts to NIH could impact health in the U.S. for generations
Earlier this month, a Trump administration plan to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by more than 40% was leaked ...
How health will be hurt by cuts at the nation's medical research agency
The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has since fired 1,300 employees ...
Medical research brain drain: Why scientists could flee the U.S.
The Trump administration's staff reductions and cuts to research funding could potentially cause young scientists to leave ...
Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH slashed science funding across states that backed Trump
The National Institutes of Health’s sweeping cuts of grants that fund scientific research are inflicting pain almost ...
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How possible NIH cuts could threaten future treatment for neurological diseases
A directive in January from the National Institutes of Health aimed to reduce funding for many of the essential costs that ...
What does the NIH do?
Like many government institutions, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faces big budget cuts and a dramatic restructuring ...
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NIH cuts funding for Yale’s LGBTQ+ and public health equity research
The NIH terminated at least 17 Yale-affiliated grants, totaling $42.7 million, raising alarm across the scientific and ...
Will there be an autism registry? What we know after NIH drops plans for vast data platform
An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...
Harvard Medical researcher sues NIH for cutting grant to study LGBTQ mental health
"This is not just an attack on the LGBTQ community — it is a blow to the integrity of science and the health of every ...
Sweeping NIH cuts jolt UC Davis dementia research team and scientists nationwide
The fallout from billions of dollars in NIH cuts hits a noted neurologist’s UCD lab. His $53 million grant was on the ...
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Colleges Must Eliminate DEI Programs to Receive Research Funding, NIH Says
The agency did not define what it meant by DEI efforts, leaving institutions to try to interpret whether their programs are ...
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How NIH staffing cuts may delay a promising cancer treatment’s implementation
Earlier in April, doctors at the National Institutes of Health made a promising step in the fight against cancer, announcing an immunotherapy treatment was able to shrink gastrointestinal tumors for ...