Claire Cadwallader
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Claire Cadwallader
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Postdoc @ UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Cognitive resilience, physical activity, aging/dementia, sex differences, precision medicine.
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Cuts to the the Women’s Health Initiative “will lead to incalculable losses to scientific discovery and human health.” www.statnews.com/2025/04/22/w...
Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding
The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.
www.statnews.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Reposted by Claire Cadwallader
I must not be wording this right. Lemme try again.

There is only one (1) office (not even an institute) at the NIH dedicated to women’s health research. That office is now being dismantled, with only a bland landing page remaining on their website. This is a five-alarm fire!

orwh.od.nih.gov
ORWH Home
Established in 1990, the Office of Research on Women's Health serves as the focal point for women's health research at the National Institutes of Health
orwh.od.nih.gov
January 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Reposted by Claire Cadwallader
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM