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Although the new administation has a fairly opaque philosophical reference point, the scale of philosophical change can't be ignored and for any advocy group, how the locci of influence in the US has altered with that philisophical redirection has to be responded to if advocacy for ME/CFS & LC...

Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Cut Funding The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives. "Two groups representing Harvard professors sued the Trump administration on Friday, saying that its threat to cut billions...

Not that the US has an ongoing HIV issue - for example as compared to the UK: United Kingdom Prevalence = 0.17% Total cases = 116,000 United States Prevalence =0.42% Total cases = 1,427,15 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_adult_prevalence_rate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8r87z8vl0o Ana Faguy BBC News, Washington DC A top vaccine official at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was forced out of his job, US media reports. Peter Marks offered his letter of resignation to Health and Human Services (HHS) officials on...

There simply isn't the capacity elsewhere, neither teaching posts nor labs to accomodate thousands of now unemployed/underemployed medical researchers. Some countries with unmet clinical demand may recruit US resident clinicians into non research posts and a few countries may be able to rapidly...

It doesn't. This is a profound shift in the culture of public funding of research in the richest nation. There will never be a wholesale switch back to the previous relatively secure position of accademics deciding what is or isn't science, or is or isn't accademic probity. Ownership now lies...

Not arguing with Dave30th's answer but specifically - the grant application will have referenced diversity issues as a matter of course - it was a requirement ! The slash and burn approach is simply using basic key word searches and anything with an offending word is marked for...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/dei-columbia-funding-cuts/682091/ The DEI Catch-22 Columbia researchers believe their grants are being cut because of diversity components that were imposed by the federal government. By Rose Horowitch When the Trump administration announced...

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/ Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants The mRNA technology is under study at the NIH for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including flu and AIDS, and...

But NI is NOT an insurance scheme in the usual sense - it is a payment based entitlement to the Old Age Pension with scheme operating so that current payment pays the current bill, not invested for the future - which is why UK state pensions are declining in value as the country ages. It is also...

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ax-grants-vaccine-hesitancy-mrna-vaccines Science: 10 Mar 20257:15 PM ET By Sara Reardon NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr The National Institutes of...

The 2025 Mandate for Leadership document https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf which said to be the blue print for Trump Governmental cultural change doesn't use "handicapped" and only uses disabled/disability - perhaps because this is now preferred by Veteran...

Arguing about what is or isn't 'woke' is a circular trap - if you contest something being allocated to the woke category you are by definition woke and what you are defending is then itself axiomatically woke. The new regime in Washington is defining acceptable language, and not abiding by these...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/top-us-health-agency-makes-25000-buyout-offer-119606124 Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees WASHINGTON -- Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare...

A new challenge for health advocacy in the US - language censorship https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html full article requires free registration - part image below

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00703-1 Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet...

https://dnyuz.com/2025/02/26/trumps-hhs-halts-multimillion-dollar-biden-era-contract-to-create-new-covid-19-vaccine/ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has halted a Biden-era contract to create a new COVID-19 vaccine, Fox News Digital reported on...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/fda-meeting-to-choose-flu-vaccine-composition-canceled-without-explanation/ar-AA1zRJE7 FDA meeting to choose flu vaccine composition canceled without explanation A March meeting of outside advisers to the United States Food and Drug Administration to...

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/cdc-vaccine-promotions-rfk-jr-informed-consent/ HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’ Experts fear effort to recalibrate tone could dampen vaccine uptake The Centers for Disease Control and...

The only country with the administrative responsiveness and the cash to quickly exploit the arising opportunities at scale is China - other countries have to go through Democratic processes to raise a fraction of what Trump/Musk are cutting. If Trump/Musk continue then EU and and non US...