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NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump’s deep cuts in public health research

President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.”

U.S. News & World Report · 22h

NIH Scientists Speak Out Over Estimated $12 Billion in Trump Funding Cuts

More than 60 current employees sent their letter to NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and members of Congress who oversee NIH. Bhattacharya is scheduled to testify Tuesday at the U.

Yahoo · 15h

NIH scientists condemn Trump research cuts

Hundreds of staffers from across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are speaking out against the politicization of their research and termination of their work while demanding that the drastic changes made at the agency be walked back.

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Plan to restructure NIH would stall science, not streamline it

The current system of specialized institutes at the NIH has led to transformative breakthroughs in cancer therapies, heart ...

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Top NIH nutrition researcher studying ultraprocessed foods departs, citing censorship under Kennedy

Kennedy told lawmakers that the most important action the federal government could take to improve the nation’s nutrition would be “to deploy NIH and FDA to [do] the research to understand the ...

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FDA and NIH Announce New Food and Nutrition Research Agenda

May 12, 2025 – On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced they’ll collaborate on a new agenda for nutrition research that will ... plan ...

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NIH director: Nutrition research must be replicable to ‘advance confidence’ in results

Conflicting results in nutrition research has led to widespread confusion about optimal diets, Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, said. The NIH will fund replication efforts that aim to strengthen ...

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