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NIH Staff Have Broken Their Silence
Civil servants usually keep a low profile. These NIH employees are putting themselves at risk by calling out the Trump ...
Trump fired hundreds of science communicators like me. Public health will suffer. | GUEST COMMENTARY
Worse, this was just the beginning. Deeper cuts are in play under the guise of “reductions in force.” Those cuts have been ...
An Uproar at the NIH
Jay Bhattacharya, the the agency’s director, has made a point of welcoming dissent. A letter from his officials will test ...
‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’
In a letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on Monday, NIH workers said they felt “compelled to speak up" about research ...
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NIH chief stands by funding cuts to ‘politicized science’ at tense hearing
Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.
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'Injecting politics into NIH': Senators drill Jay Bhattacharya in hearing over $18B budget cut proposal
During a Senate hearing, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., said the last few ...
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NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research
Hundreds of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a call for action they dubbed the Bethesda Declaration on Monday to push back against cutbacks and changes at the ...