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While Kennedy once claimed that he was increasing the number of scientists and front-line workers, ProPublica found that more than 1,050 scientists, physicians and public health specialists left or were pushed out of the CDC from January to mid-August.
Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
projects.propublica.org
September 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
While Kennedy once claimed that he was increasing the number of scientists and front-line workers, ProPublica found that more than 1,050 scientists, physicians and public health specialists left or were pushed out of the CDC from January to mid-August.
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Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become.
Ousted vaccine panel members say rigorous science is being abandoned
Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.
bit.ly
July 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become.
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Kennedy will “do everything possible to destroy the vaccine infrastructure.”
The plot against vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have hit on a way to undermine immunization.
www.motherjones.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Kennedy will “do everything possible to destroy the vaccine infrastructure.”
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A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4eeAamP
https://go.nature.com/4eeAamP
Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
Nature - The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
go.nature.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4eeAamP
https://go.nature.com/4eeAamP
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We heard directly from more than 150 researchers, scientists and investigators about their terminated NIH grants and the science that’s being lost. Full story ⤵️
June 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
We heard directly from more than 150 researchers, scientists and investigators about their terminated NIH grants and the science that’s being lost. Full story ⤵️
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In an uncertain world, Australia is spending about 1.7% of its Gross Domestic Product on research and development. The OECD average is 2.7%.
Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt is ‘scared’ about Australia’s research capacity – this is why
theconversation.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In an uncertain world, Australia is spending about 1.7% of its Gross Domestic Product on research and development. The OECD average is 2.7%.
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In Lesotho and Eswatini, U.S. budget cuts threaten to wipe out years of progress against HIV. scim.ag/3Fdl6c3
U.S. aid helped two African countries rein in HIV. Then came Trump
In Lesotho and Eswatini, treatment and prevention cutbacks are hitting pregnant women, children, and teens especially hard
scim.ag
May 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In Lesotho and Eswatini, U.S. budget cuts threaten to wipe out years of progress against HIV. scim.ag/3Fdl6c3
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Donanemab is only for use in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. And for now at least, it comes with a hefty price tag.
The TGA has approved donanemab for Alzheimer’s disease. How does this drug work and who will be able to access it?
theconversation.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Donanemab is only for use in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. And for now at least, it comes with a hefty price tag.
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Donald Trump cut funding for cancer research by 31% in the first three months of his term.
This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.
This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.
May 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Donald Trump cut funding for cancer research by 31% in the first three months of his term.
This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.
This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.
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Celgene kept the drug’s price low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients.
But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price.
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But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price.
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May 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Celgene kept the drug’s price low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients.
But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/43jfFQF
But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/43jfFQF
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Zolgensma’s $2M/dose price quickly became the standard for gene therapies.
Nine of them cost more than $2M. A tenth, approved in November, is predicted to run about $3.8M, just shy of the most expensive, which costs $4.25M/dose.
Nine of them cost more than $2M. A tenth, approved in November, is predicted to run about $3.8M, just shy of the most expensive, which costs $4.25M/dose.
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices…
www.propublica.org
May 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Zolgensma’s $2M/dose price quickly became the standard for gene therapies.
Nine of them cost more than $2M. A tenth, approved in November, is predicted to run about $3.8M, just shy of the most expensive, which costs $4.25M/dose.
Nine of them cost more than $2M. A tenth, approved in November, is predicted to run about $3.8M, just shy of the most expensive, which costs $4.25M/dose.
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"When you mix politics and science, you just get politics."
The former NIH director Francis Collins talks about the effects of polarization and misinformation on public health:
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The former NIH director Francis Collins talks about the effects of polarization and misinformation on public health:
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April 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"When you mix politics and science, you just get politics."
The former NIH director Francis Collins talks about the effects of polarization and misinformation on public health:
bit.ly/4iFKe8K
The former NIH director Francis Collins talks about the effects of polarization and misinformation on public health:
bit.ly/4iFKe8K
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In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science.
This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
April 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science.
This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation: hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated today on top of the hundreds already terminated last week, Nature has learnt.
https://go.nature.com/3YOHqiq
https://go.nature.com/3YOHqiq
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.
go.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation: hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated today on top of the hundreds already terminated last week, Nature has learnt.
https://go.nature.com/3YOHqiq
https://go.nature.com/3YOHqiq
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Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office.
Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.
Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office.
Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.
Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.
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Debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist. RFK Jr. knows shockingly little about autism.
RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism
For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.
www.motherjones.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist. RFK Jr. knows shockingly little about autism.
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NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
www.propublica.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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Kseniia Petrova fled political persecution from Putin and escaped to America. She’s a brilliant scientist—one of the most talented Harvard’s seen in 20 years.
Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin.
She should be released, NOW.
Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin.
She should be released, NOW.
She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her (Gift Article)
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Kseniia Petrova fled political persecution from Putin and escaped to America. She’s a brilliant scientist—one of the most talented Harvard’s seen in 20 years.
Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin.
She should be released, NOW.
Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin.
She should be released, NOW.
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All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
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Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
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Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust
Nature - Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.
go.nature.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway
https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb
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RFK Jr giving families ‘false hope’ on autism, says outgoing US vaccine official
RFK Jr giving families ‘false hope’ on autism, says outgoing US vaccine official
Dr Peter Marks, forced to resign by Trump administration, sees no ‘possible way’ to determine cause by September
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, should not offer “false hope” to families by boasting he can figure out what causes autism as soon as September, says the physician who resigned as the nation’s top vaccine official amid what he called anti-vaccination misinformation from the Trump administration cabinet member.
In an interview during which he alluded to his help helming Operation Warp Speed – the initiative that took only about nine months to develop, manufacture and distribute the vaccines protecting the public from Covid-19 – Dr Peter Marks warned that autism “is an incredibly complicated issue”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
RFK Jr giving families ‘false hope’ on autism, says outgoing US vaccine official
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All Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists who provided training on concussions in youth sports were fired last week. scim.ag/4jsdSiL
CDC firings gut research on traumatic brain injuries
Last week’s mass layoffs removed small team studying concussions
scim.ag
April 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
All Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists who provided training on concussions in youth sports were fired last week. scim.ag/4jsdSiL
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Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
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COMMENTARY: Most scholars under authoritarian regimes used to flee to the US — a country that encouraged research without fear or favor.
But now, thanks to President Donald Trump, a reverse brain drain has begun.
But now, thanks to President Donald Trump, a reverse brain drain has begun.
The US brain drain has begun
The White House appears hell-bent on destroying not just economic and political paradigms, but a higher education system that really did make America great.
ow.ly
April 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
COMMENTARY: Most scholars under authoritarian regimes used to flee to the US — a country that encouraged research without fear or favor.
But now, thanks to President Donald Trump, a reverse brain drain has begun.
But now, thanks to President Donald Trump, a reverse brain drain has begun.