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BREAKING: Vinay Prasad is returning to the FDA to resume his role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy, and blood product regulation — just two weeks after his ouster. www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/v...
HFO HFO Vinay Prasad returns to a top FDA role just weeks after his abrupt dismissal.
The Native American Disability Law Center serves as a watchdog for ppl with disabilities in the Navajo Nation and other indigenous communities in the region. Trump's health agency budget proposal would cut all of their federal funding.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/n...
Proposed HHS budget cuts would reduce funding of protection and advocacy programs for individuals with mental illness.
A big way the federal government sets policies in health and science is through the giving of grants. Traditionally, those decisions have been made on the basis of peer review by experts. Trump's new EO puts those powers in the hands of political appointees.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...
A sweeping new executive order seeks to transform how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants
full EO here if you want to read
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
A gaggle of STAT's science reporters wrote about what the new Trump EO on federal grants means for researchers and the NIH
The bottom line is that it "turns science into an instrument for partisan gain" as @scott-delaney.bsky.social put it
www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...
A sweeping new executive order seeks to transform how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants
Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH.
This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.
I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
What's being lost as the NIH curtails foreign subawards?
Rare disease research, which often needs investigators in multiple countries to have enough patients to study, is being hit hard @mmolteni.bsky.social writes
www.statnews.com/2025/08/06/n...
Rare disease research has been caught up in a Trump administration crackdown on NIH grants being used to support international collaborations
we go through the report's findings w/ help from @sbagen.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @aaas.org
The Govt. Accountability Office issued a report today finding that the Trump admin has violated a law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved
@mmolteni.bsky.social & I break it down:
www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/g...
The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 federal law
if you want more on how we got here:
www.statnews.com/2024/10/28/e...
The eugenics movement is taking center stage in the U.S. — both in Trump's rhetoric, and through a rise in race science.
