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One other Columbia program slashed in funding lockout
A big analysis program into myalgic encephalomyelitis/continual fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS, has been compelled to close down due to Trump administration cuts earlier this month to Columbia College’s funding, one in all its prime researchers mentioned.
The Columbia middle, housed within the public well being college, is one in all few locations within the nation totally dedicated to learning the disabling situation believed to have an effect on tens of millions of People, STAT’s Isabella Cueto stories. It had been receiving funding from the NIH, which slashed about $250 million in grants to Columbia after Trump alleged the college did not crack down on antisemitism.
The stalled research embody genetic and infectious illness analysis probing the causes of ME/CFS. They’re the most recent in a slew of cancelled research after Columba’s funding was pulled. Extra from Isa.
MAHA maven joins White Home
The Trump administration is including Calley Means, a continual illness entrepreneur and influential voice within the Make America Wholesome Once more motion, to its ranks. He’ll be working as a part-time advisor to the White Home, Means confirmed to STAT. Bloomberg first reported the information.
One among Means’ first factors of order is more likely to be altering the formulations of toddler method, if his social media is any indication, Isa tells us. He touted HHS’s new Operation Stork Pace as a “main initiative” to scrub up and presumably take away elements like seed oils and glyphosate.
“This administration is placing a stake within the floor that the US will lead the world within the creation of wholesome formulation for our infants,” he wrote on X.
Texas hospital grabs a lifeline
A hospital govt got here out of retirement to save lots of a rural Texas hospital from closing, Tara Bannow stories.
In the end, after quite a few money-saving efforts, Ted Matthews, interim CEO of Anson Basic Hospital in Anson, a West-Central Texas city, made a last-ditch effort and utilized for Anson Basic to be a brand new sort of Rural Emergency Hospital.
However the choice can include important downsides. Learn extra from Tara on the professionals and cons of following the route that Congress created in 2023 to maintain rural hospitals afloat.
DOGE bares its tooth at AHRQ
In Tuesday’s publication, we reported that lawmakers are frightened about large layoffs on the Company for Healthcare Analysis and High quality. Since then, I’ve spoken to present and former company staff who supplied some extra particulars.
DOGE confirmed up at AHRQ on March 11, the place they informed company leaders they plan to chop 80% to 90% of employees. That will successfully finish the company of about 300 staff, whereas technically leaving a shell of it in place, very similar to DOGE did to the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth.
Staff had little discover. They needed to determine whether or not to take buyout and early retirement affords by final Friday. Learn extra right here concerning the analysis that could possibly be misplaced.
The worldwide vacuum brought on by U.S. help cuts
The Trump administration’s dismantling of overseas help successfully triggered a mass layoff of well being staff all over the world — a lot of them in sub-Saharan Africa, in accordance with STAT European correspondent Andrew Joseph. There, USAID and longtime HIV/AIDS initiatives, PEPFAR-funded applications for brand spanking new and pregnant moms, infectious illness management, and vitamin are actually in limbo, with hundreds of employees, and sufferers, left within the lurch.
Many are uncertain the place to show to proceed working within the fields to which they’ve devoted their careers. They’re involved about what’s going to occur to the individuals they used to assist, and about their very own futures, STAT Europe Correspondent Andrew Joseph writes.
Andrew spoke to a few of these staff, like Ntombi, a South African lady who labored in an HIV/AIDS clinic till she was abruptly informed to finish her work this January, leaving her no time to attach her sufferers with different sources. Learn extra.
What we’re studying
As U.S. punts on ultra-processed meals, California seeks to ban ‘significantly dangerous’ ones from college lunches, STAT
Trump administration says it’s slicing $175 million in funding to College of Pennsylvania, CBS Information
I helped declare the U.S. measles-free in 2000. I’m dismayed by the place we are actually, STAT
Colorado medical researchers misplaced grants to review vaccine hesitancy, Alzheimer’s, Denver Submit
