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U.S. Government response to multistate measles outbreak hampered by job, grant cuts, experts say

Wed, 2025-04-09 17:09 — mike kraft
Response to multistate measles outbreak hampered by unique set of challenges | CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on the ground in Texas for the second time this year, as an ongoing multistate measles outbreak centered in the western part of the state has grown to one of the worst the country has seen in decades. Deidre McPhillips, Neha Mukherjee, Meg Tirrell CNN

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Long COVID activists manages to reverse Trump team’s research cuts, for now

Wed, 2025-04-09 16:54 — mike kraft
Long COVID activists fought Trump team’s research cuts and won ― for now Nature - Success gives hope to scientists and advocates who managed to get millions of dollars in grants restored. nature
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U.S. government pain research office closed down in NIH job purge

Tue, 2025-04-08 16:14 — mike kraft
Unique pain research office eliminated in HHS purge Pain is the most costly chronic health problem in the U.S. In latest RIFs at NIH, an entire division devoted to pain research was closed down. Lev Facher STAT

 

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Trump administration's mass firings decimate offices that release health records

Tue, 2025-04-08 15:21 — mike kraft
Firings at Federal Health Agencies Decimate Offices That Release Public Records - KFF Health News The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass firings included people who fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and FDA, which result in the release of records about government handling of infectious diseases, medical products, and safety problems in health facilities. khnbrettk KFF Health News
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Medical research: 16 states filed court cases against Trump administration's cancellation of medical reserch grants

Mon, 2025-04-07 16:25 — mike kraft
Democratic states sue NIH, RFK Jr. over canceled medical research grants Democratic attorneys general in 16 states led by New York and Massachusetts sued the Trump administration Friday over the cancellation of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) … nweixel The Hill

Democratic attorneys general in 16 states led by New York and Massachusetts sued the Trump administration Friday over the cancellation of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants for medical research. 

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Analysis: U.S. CDC Budget cuts damage HIV prevention programs

Mon, 2025-04-07 16:07 — mike kraft
HIV prevention was making great strides. Then Trump’s budget axe fell CDC layoffs and program cuts gutted branches responsible for a slew of HIV prevention services, imperiling decades of progress. Jason Mast STAT

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RFK Jr. says he plans to reinstate some personnel and programs hit by massive health agency layoffs

Fri, 2025-04-04 20:02 — mike kraft
Kennedy says he plans to reinstate some personnel and programs severed in massive HHS layoffs | CNN Some personnel and programs affected by sweeping reductions at federal health agencies on Tuesday will be reinstated, including a program at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that monitors lead in kids, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday. Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell CNN

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FDA staff hard pressed to meet product review deadlines because of DOGE job cuts

Fri, 2025-03-28 14:38 — mike kraft

 

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Climate change dropped from U.S. intelligence agencies' anual threat assement in 2nd Trump adminstration's first report.

Thu, 2025-03-27 17:34 — mike kraft
Climate change taken off spy agencies' global threat list Climate change has been included in annual threat assessments since 2009, in one form or another. Andrew Freedman Axios
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RFK Jr eliminates another 10,000 jobs in U.S. Health and Human Services agency

Thu, 2025-03-27 14:59 — mike kraft
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