"During one clinical trial called a CAR-T treatment, Schlossberg wrote of the sad irony of watching RFK Jr. an embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family being confirmed as head of Health and Human Services. She described the ground-breaking treatment as a method developed over many decades with millions of dollars of government funding the same funding that Kennedy has been slashing now that he's a member of the Trump administration."
"As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings, she wrote."
"Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I had the postpartum hemorrhage, I was given a dose of misoprostol to help stop the bleeding. This drug is part of medication abortion, which, at Bobby's urging, is currently under review by the Food and Dru"
Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and cousin to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia shortly after giving birth. She underwent chemotherapy, stem-cell transplants, and clinical trials including CAR-T, and received a prognosis of no more than a year to live. During a CAR-T trial she described the irony of RFK Jr.'s confirmation as head of Health and Human Services while government-funded research enabled the therapy. She cited RFK Jr.'s cuts to mRNA vaccine research, billions removed from the National Institutes of Health, cancellations of hundreds of grants and trials, and threats to medical expert panels. She worried about trials at Memorial Sloan Kettering and her chances for remission.
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