#nih-funding

#nih-funding

Staff members at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) seem to have done the impossible. Despite US President Donald Trump's administration laying off thousands of the agency's workers, delaying meetings to review research grants and terminating funding for some projects, the NIH seems like it will dole out its entire US$48-billion budget on deadline - by the end of the fiscal year on 30 September.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr held a press conference about rising diagnoses of autism, saying he would soon announce a study to identify the responsible agent and asserting that environmental factors are the main cause of autism, a claim that drew attention amid broader debate over drivers of the increase and calls for robust, transparent research to substantiate causal links between environmental exposures and developmental outcomes.

The first part of this past summer, I was preoccupied with preparing three different grant applications. Writing grants is a normal part of my job. Heck, sometimes it feels like it is the majority of my job as an academic scientist. So, those couple of months were not out of the ordinary; I often spend those early summer months preparing for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) summer cycle.

Of the 20 labor markets that saw the biggest increases in NIH funding between 2004 and 2023, many were well-known college towns, including Tallahassee, Fla.; Athens, Ga.; and State College, Pa. And according to the report's calculations, the local economies that saw a substantial increase in NIH funding during that period also had lower rates of employment decline than those with small increases, no increases or no NIH funding.

Trump's decision to pause NIH grant-making for over two months halted approximately $1.5 billion in funding, disrupting clinical trials for new cancer drugs and research.

Measures of health care quality are essential for understanding the impact of interventions in real-world systems. They assess treatment effectiveness, access to care, and patient satisfaction.

"Young, a 1985 Reagan appointee, said at the hearing that he has 'never seen government racial discrimination like this' in his 40-year career, calling the funding cuts 'arbitrary and capricious, and unlawful' in his ruling."},{

Kennedy has pledged that his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement will focus on improving the health of the nation's children.