"His institute’s covid contrarians seek to limit the government’s role in protecting Americans from disease. The Austin, Texas-based think tank has received millions from donors whose identities are shielded in tax filings. And in recent months, its associates have catapulted to the highest levels of government."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/brownstone-institute-vaccines-acip-cdc-jeffrey-tucker-bhattacharya-kulldorff/

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Getting my feet wet creating audio plugins in Rust with nih-plug and vizia.

Chose to write a background MIDI recorder and it's going surprisingly well so far. Will need a stylistic overhaul at some point, but functionality fist.

This is with note generator for debugging, but it works within Bitwig Studio recording my controllers, too.

#rust #nih-plug #bitwig #midi #plugin #vizia

Over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts, according to a new report.

@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/tNlpJa

#Science #NIH #Health #Trump

"The NIH has posted a dozen job openings for institute directors with very tight turnaround timelines and without convening search committees -- a departure from the past that's raising red flags among scientists."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/118567

#healthcare #biomedical #science #research #NIH #HHS #grants #funding

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#NIH grants cuts:🚨disrupted ~383 clinical trials: infectious dis res hit esp hard -real-world cons of Trump/c.'s #health policy.

Disrupting trials💔means pts given investigational drugs: exposed to potential side effects w/o the chance of benefitting -& an interrupted trial often can’t pick up...

& while >74,000 patients are enrolled in trials🚨*lost funding➡️impacts extend far beyond even that. Loss of K from a disrupted trial can reverberate for yrs.
#GOPDeathCult #USPol
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih-grant-cuts-have-disrupted-hundreds-clinical-trials-study-finds

"NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says."
https://apnews.com/article/nih-funding-cuts-32b9b7bad01457a5412af26e394e3735

This AP article doesn't link to the primary source in _JAMA Internal Medicine_ or the accompanying editor's note, perhaps because they're both #paywalled. (If that's the reason, it's weak.) Here they are:

* primary source
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2840939

* editor's note
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2840943

#ClinicalTrials #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics