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The Crackdown on Campuses Is a Crackdown on Unions

Many students losing visas and research funding are union members. Some in the labor movement are pushing back.

Capital & Main

How does your brain create new memories? Neuroscientists discover ‘rules’ for how neurons encode new information

Every day, people are constantly learning and forming new memories. When you pick up a new hobby, try a recipe a friend recommended or read the latest world news, your brain stores many of these memories for years or decades.

The Conversation

Top NIH researcher resigns claiming RFK Jr.’s aides stopped him talking to media about ultra processed foods

Dr Kevin Hall alleges aides to Robert F Kennedy Jr blocked him from presenting study into addictiveness of junk foods and edited interview answers without his consent

The Independent UK

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Why federal funding for life sciences—now being slashed—is a strategic necessity for America

Today’s federal investments are laying the groundwork for tomorrow’s breakthroughs—and economic prosperity.

Fortune

The sudden dismissal of public records staff at health agencies threatens government accountability

Mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services are continuing as the agency makes good on its intention, announced on March 27, 2025, to shrink its workforce by 20,000 people. Among workers dismissed in early April were several teams responsible for fulfilling requests for access to previously unreleased…

The Conversation

The latest scientific breakthrough in how probiotics impact mental health

The gut-brain connection deepens with new research.

Fortune

As RFK Jr. defends cuts to public health, experts warn of devastating effects that could haunt Americans for decades

There is one area to which experts say Trump’s administration unquestionably has already done real damage: public health.

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National Institutes of Health workers told to blow off Musk demands for weekly performance reviews

Musk has suddenly been a no-show at White House events. Now federal agencies are ignoring his orders

The Independent UK

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America

If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

The Guardian - US

Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs

Alarm over ‘the health of the nation’s children’ follows federal workforce cuts by health secretary RFK Jr

The Guardian - US

Estrogen may spur the body to make opioids after injury

The female sex hormone estrogen, along with progesterone, appears to underlie a fundamental difference in how males and females process pain, a mouse study finds.

LiveScience

The Latest: Business leaders warn Trump tariffs will raise prices for US consumers

President Donald Trump has announced plans for sweeping tariffs

The Independent UK

Scientists sue NIH, saying politics cut their research funding

A group of scientists and health groups sued the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, arguing that an “ideological purge” of research funding is illegal and threatens medical cures

The Independent UK

Kennedy remains quiet on 10,000 jobs lost at the nation's top health department

Health secretary Robert F

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International Business Times

Trump Admin Cuts Key Staff Involved In FDA's Bird Flu Response Amid Widespread HHS Layoffs

The job cuts have impacted researchers, scientists, and senior officials, leading to the loss of key figures who shaped U.S. policies on drug approvals, medical research, and public health.

The Independent UK

Here's where jobs and programs are being cut at the nation's top health agencies

Thousands of people at the nation’s top health agencies were laid off Tuesday

Roll Call

HHS layoffs cut deep swath through health infrastructure - Roll Call

The changes lay the groundwork for Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to streamline operations and shift to focusing on chronic disease.

Reason

The 3 Myths Supporting NIH Funding

Innovation, basic research, and economic growth do not rely on federal science funding.

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Salon

Trump abandons long COVID patients again

Budget cuts and the dismantling of federal agencies are making it harder for patients with long COVID and ME/CFS

Euronews

An experimental brain-computer implant is helping a stroke survivor speak again

Scientists trained an AI model that translates brain activity into sound to help a stroke survivor regain speech.

The Guardian - US

Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘Setting us back decades’

Termination of at least 145 grants will decimate progress toward eliminating epidemic, scientists say

The Conversation

Cuts to science research funding cut American lives short − federal support is essential for medical breakthroughs

Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health: from over-the-counter and prescription medications that treat high cholesterol and pain to protection from infectious diseases such as polio and smallpox.

The Guardian - US

RFK Jr plans 10,000 job cuts in restructuring of US health department

Health secretary aims to close regional offices and establish new division called ‘administration for a healthy America’

The Guardian - US

Trump administration at ‘war’ with mRNA technology: scientists alarmed vaccine skeptics could kill research

Public health experts are sounding the alarm over recent move by the NIH to collect information about funding for research into mRNA technology

Reason

Will Jay Bhattacharya Get Gain-of-Function Research Under Control?

The past three administrations have tried and failed to implement binding regulations on risky research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

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