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On top of that, the HHS has been ordered to reduce spending on contracts
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts. The cuts apply to all divisions of HHS, which include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies. “These spending cuts will weaken public health in…
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Many federal health workers are losing their jobs
The US National Institute for Health recently cancelled over a hundred research grants funding HIV and AIDS research in the past few weeks, according to a Nature analysis. The CDC is losing its HIV prevention office as part of the restructuring. The Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and…
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There have been a lot of firings at federal health agencies
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired over 100 executives at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to Nature. The firings include several NIH directors as well as executives at the Food and Drug Administration. “These reductions in the workforce will have a profound impact on key NIH administrative functions…[and]…will…
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It is an attack on science everywhere in Trump 2.0
Thousands of US scientists held a protest against President Donald Trump’s executive orders on research funding at federal agencies on February 20, the day that Trump took office. The protest, which was attended by 250 students and researchers, was the first of its kind in the US. Scientists had gathered outside the US Department of…
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There’s a lot running in a federal government shutdown
The US government has shut down for the third time in a year after President Donald Trump refused to sign a funding bill that did not include $5.7 billion for a US-Mexico border wall. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will remain closed and services will be suspended. However, CHIP and Medicaid…