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U.S. Health Department instructs staff to pause NIH awards to elite universities, according to internal agency email
Officials in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have instructed the National Institutes of Health staff to ...
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards
The grant supported Dr. Fiesler’s research on building A.I. literacy. She received no official explanation for why the grant ...
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New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities
The mandate overrules Section 4.1.2 “Civil Rights Protections” of the NIH Grants Policy Statement, which includes the Civil ...
Eight artificial dyes will be phased out of US food supply, Health Secretary RFK Jr. says
For years, Kennedy has railed against Big Food and Big Pharma and blamed the nation’s “chronic disease epidemic” on additives ...
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Over half of U.S. counties have no system in place for monitoring air quality
Amid a measles outbreak and a government response led by a health secretary who has repeatedly cast doubt on the safety and ...
RFK’s health agency slashed science funding in Florida and other Trump states
A KFF Health News analysis underscores that the terminations are sparing no part of the country, politically or ...
Inside NIH’s taxpayer-funded trans study on the ‘benefits’ of puberty blockers
The National Institutes of Health has pumped millions of tax dollars into a yearslong research project to study the “mental health benefits” of puberty blockers, in apparent hopes ...
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.