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Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent

The federal government is full of scientists who lend their expertise to key decisions about our food, medicines, environment ...

Britt leads GOP senators calling for Trump to disburse delayed NIH funds

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) and 13 other Senate Republicans urged the Trump administration on Friday to disburse held-up funds ...

GOP senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funding

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and 13 other Senate Republicans are urging the Trump administration to release National Institutes ...

Trump officials halt ‘dangerous’ NIH research

The National Institutes of Health is in the process of suspending funding for 40 experiments because of fears that the ...

‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former NIH director on cuts to medical research

Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks to Christiane Amanpour about his decision ...
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Basic science publications have been falling for a decade. NIH budget cut would likely accelerate the decline

The number of basic science papers published by NIH grant recipients has been falling since 2013, when the agency’s budget ...
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'It Is Shameful': Sen. Chris Van Hollen Rails Against Trump's Boneheaded Cuts To The NIH In Powerful Remarks At Rally

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) attended a rally today in support of current and former employees at the NIH standing up to ...

How Trump Killed Cancer Research

Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of ...