"Thousands of grants, including many at public universities and on topics as politically benign as Alzheimer’s, have been caught in what critics say is an unprecedented slowdown of the American research system that is threatening to upend universities and halt progress toward medical innovations, treatments and cures."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/one-countrys-leading-alzheimers-projects-jeopardy-rcna199788

#healthcare #NIH #HHS #science #research #ClinicalTrials #grants #funding #universities #DOGE #USpol

"But Youle’s dismissal, along with 10 others at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, underscores a recurring problem in the Trump administration’s push to rapidly shrink the federal workforce: Computers are making decisions without much human oversight."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/future-pulse/2025/04/11/the-downside-of-rifs-at-nih-00283243

#healthcare #NIH #scientists #science #research #DOGE #USpol

“Health and Human Services Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say” - #WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/department-health-human-services-possible-collapse/

“If the situation is not addressed, “pretty soon, the department will be completely open to external actors to get at the largest databases in the world that have all of our public health information in them, our sensitive drug testing clinical trial information at the #NIH or #FDA or different organizations’ mental health records,” the source claims…”

#HealthCare #USPolitics #DHHS

So, like an idiot (or someone who's had someone die of cancer and has some empathy) I enrolled in this study a few years back and I'm now antsy about what the #NIH will do with my samples

https://www.cancer.gov/connect-prevention-study/

Heading to SynBioBeta to be on a panel about art & science. These conferences offer an intriguing mix of science, policy, futurism, industry boosterism & the occasional sideshow from outer space.

All across the USA, anti-scientific mobs are looking for research laboratories to vandalize and scientific careers to foreclose.

Yet astounding advances in biological science keep happening despite everything.

#biology #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #NIH #NSF

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnsundman/p/synbiobeta-dreaming-2025?r=38b5x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"The National Institutes of Health told employees Thursday it was rolling back directives from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to probe worker productivity and limit purchases and travel on company cards, according to messages obtained by POLITICO."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/health-staffers-told-to-ignore-musks-missives-00283976

#healthcare #NIH #science #research #work #labor #staff #productivity #DOGE #USpol

Get ready for a different narrative.

Actually the concept was so foreign to me that the headline didn't make any sense until I re-read it 3 or 4 times. I didn't think it was proper grammar.

White House orders NIH to research trans 'regret' and 'detransition'
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5355126/trump-nih-trans-regret-detransition-research

#NIH

“Scientists forced to perform humiliating new job amid Trump cuts.”

I wish that this article was from the Onion, but it’s actually news from the Daily Mail, that’s unfortunately the awful truth about the possible fate of scientists who were fired by the Trump admin by way of Musk’s DOGE.

It’s Trump who should be made to perform humiliating jobs in prison, for the rest of his life.

#Firings #DOGE #Science #Scientists #NIH #Musk #Trump #Resist #USPol

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14602853/scientists-forced-new-job-trump-nps-cuts.html