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"In recent weeks, academics who focus on improving the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans have been subjected to waves of grant cancellations from the National Institutes of Health. More than 270 grants totaling at least $125 million of unspent funds have been eliminated, though the true sum is likely much greater, researchers told NBC News."
NBC News · Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
“A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction blocking the plan to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%. The judge highlighted that the policy would have caused “imminent risk of halting life-saving clinical trials” and “disrupting “innovative medical research and treatments.”
-Dr K Young
The NIH is still being gutted, but this is good news, but will be appealed by the anti-science, #TrumpMusk regime.
#NIH #HHS #PublicHealth #Science #USPol https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/04/nih-indirect-costs-federal-permanent-injunction/
STAT · Federal judge issues permanent injunction on Trump cuts to research overhead paymentsA ruling on Friday sets up the next chapter of the legal battle between the Trump administration and stakeholders in academic research.
Thank you Dr. Brittany Charlton (& others taking legal action) for suing #RFK's evil, stupid cuts to #NIH research b/c he doesn't realize or care that "We are all connected."
"Some of our research may seem narrowly targeted. For instance, we may study why a particular population has a higher-than-expected risk of colon cancer. If you’re not a member of that group, you might question why your tax dollars should fund such research. One answer is that we are all connected."
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5233205-im-a-scientist-and-im-suing-rfk-jr/
Thank you Dr. Brittany Charlton (& others taking legal action) for suing #RFK's evil, stupid cuts to #NIH research b/c he doesn't realize or care that "We are all connected."
"Some of our research may seem narrowly targeted. For instance, we may study why a particular population has a higher-than-expected risk of colon cancer. If you’re not a member of that group, you might question why your tax dollars should fund such research. One answer is that we are all connected."
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5233205-im-a-scientist-and-im-suing-rfk-jr/
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Update. "Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever"
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification
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"Almost two dozen repositories of research and public #health #data supported by the #NIH are marked for “review” under the #Trump administration’s direction, and researchers and archivists say the data is at risk of being lost forever if the repositories go down. “The problem with archiving this data is that we can’t,” Lisa Chinn, Head of Research Data Services at the University of Chicago…Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency, and those agreements are carefully administered through a disclosure risk review process."
404 Media · Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost ForeverDays before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
Massive, Unarchivable #Datasets of #Cancer, #Covid, #HIV and #Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before RFK announced 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review." Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency.
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
https://archive.ph/Y8asq
404 Media · Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost ForeverDays before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's #NIH Research Could Be Lost Forever
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
404 Media · Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost ForeverDays before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
404 Media · Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost ForeverDays before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
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The #Senate Cmte on #Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions invited #RFKJr to attend a hearing next week to explain the firings. The committee is chaired by Republican U.S. Senator & physician #BillCassidy of Louisiana, whose vote was key to Kennedy's confirmation.
Newly awarded NIH grants for neuroscience lag 77 percent behind previous nine-year average https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/newly-awarded-nih-grants-for-neuroscience-lag-77-percent-behind-previous-nine-year-average/ #NIH #neuroscience
The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives · Newly awarded NIH grants for neuroscience lag 77 percent behind previous nine-year average
Newly awarded NIH grants for neuroscience lag 77 percent behind previous nine-year average www.thetransmitter.org/funding/newl... #NIH #neuroscience
Newly awarded NIH grants for n...
The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives · Newly awarded NIH grants for neuroscience lag 77 percent behind previous nine-year average
#Trump layoffs begin to erode #FDA drug review system
The Trump admin's #MassFirings at the FDA have removed employees critical to reviewing new #medicines, setting back years of effort to bring promising #treatments to #patients more quickly.
The FDA is slated to lose 3,500 employees under Secy of #HHS #RFKJr's massive *restructuring* of US #health agencies….
#NIH #CDC #FDA #PublicHealth #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-layoffs-begin-erode-fda-drug-review-system-2025-04-04/
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No plan—not his *MAHA* agenda, not efficiency, nothing—can realistically explain cuts like these. Instead, the #MassFirings don’t seem to be a means to an end on the way to overhauling American #health. They are an end in themselves.
It’ll take months, if not years, to fully appreciate the effect that the cuts will have on America’s scientific enterprise.
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the director of the National Institute of #ChildHealth & Human Development [#NICHD], the director of the #NIH’s Division of #Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, the director of the National Institute of #Nursing #Research [#NINR], & the director of the National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities [#NIMHD].
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Update. "Scientists sue #NIH, saying politics cut their research funding"
https://apnews.com/article/nih-funding-trump-dei-research-094ed2abe5ba529cdb74f7e0b429c4f3
"A group of scientists and health groups sued the NIH on Wednesday, arguing that an “ideological purge” of research funding is illegal and threatens medical cures…The suit was filed by the American Public Health Association [#APHA], unions representing scientists and some researchers who were stripped of grants."
A similar suit has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (#ACLU), the Center for Science in the Public Interest (#CSPI), and the Protect Democracy Project (#PDP).
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/aclu-sues-national-institutes-health-ideological-purge-research-projec-rcna199360
AP News · Scientists sue NIH, saying politics cut their research funding
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Update. #DOGE will review #NIH grant opportunities "to ensure the research that will be funded aligns with the priorities of President Donald Trump’s administration."
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-officials-will-screen-nih-funding-opportunities
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PS: Note that this is about content, politics, or ideology, not waste, fraud, or abuse.
"One NIH employee familiar with the matter worries that Trump officials reviewing the NOFOs [Notices of Funding Opportunities] “may not have the scientific background to understand why funding for research on certain topics is important.” Moreover, they added, “Having these decisions made by DOGE after months have been spent writing the NOFOs drafts and getting buy-in from [NIH’s institutes and centers] and offices is a huge waste of staff time and resources.”