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NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the ...
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NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research
In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the ...
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Physicians Committee Presses the NIH to Phase Out Primates in Infectious Disease Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced a promising new initiative aimed at transitioning away from animal ...
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‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
That strategy has long been core to the mission of the NIH, which spends the majority of its budget powering research outside the agency itself. Multiple vaccine experts told me that Memoli and ...
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NIH pulls funding from UMich transgender health research
it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.” Sari Reisner, associate professor of epidemiology and author of the paper supporting gender-affirming hormone therapy to prevent ...
NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology
Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory.