Here, Vought doesn’t dispute slow-walking release of NIH grants from congressionally appropriated funds so that they can be cancelled in a couple of months through pocket rescission, thereby bypassing congress to enact huge cuts to NIH research.

Equitable access to youth physical activity and sport opportunities should be a 'Lasting Legacy' of Kansas City's World Cup. Learn more in the letter below and at www.kcphysicalactivityplan.org

To keep Medicaid, a mom caring for her disabled adult son may soon need to prove she works Republicans have touted Medicaid work requirements both as a way to reduce federal spending on the program and as a moral imperative for Americans.

NEW: Under GOP budget bill, 18.5 million Americans would need to prove they work to keep their Medicaid coverage.

One of them is likely a Kansas City woman who already had to make an excruciating choice due to Medicaid rules: give up guardianship of her disabled son to work as his caregiver.

YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Saving money vs. saving lives

Ted Koppel interviews my Hopkins colleague Prof. Liz Jaffee, world expert in pancreatic cancer, about the devastating cuts and slow roll out of cancer research funding by the NIH.

See this CBS Sunday morning show video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwc...

About that "gold standard science" we've been promised ...

ADVOCACY ALERT: Funding under threat for Bike Share and Vision Zero In the next few days City Council could make devastating cuts to bike share and Vision Zero safety projects without fixing the bus and IRIS funding crisis.

ADVOCACY ALERT: #KCMO City Hall is threatening to cut funding for bike share and #VisionZero!

Learn more, take action, and please share:

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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything' After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

After Trump’s first 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding.

Try this joyful 7-minute workout you can do with kids Crawl like a bear, dodge lava and duck branches in this playful routine.

Looking for an easy way to add fun and fitness to your family life?

Try this science-based 7-minute workout parents and kids can do together.

Funding cut for landmark study of women's health The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.

"'It's a huge blow," says Wactawski-Wade.'It's been one of the most productive studies in history.And to really understand older women's health-dementia, heart failure, frailty-we are the study to do that.And it's been eviscerated right now because of these budget cuts.'"
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...

Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead

Thanks to @jaketapper.bsky.social for inviting me on his show yesterday! www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...

Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship (Gift Article) Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.

My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hearing that the entire $82mil in funding for the Diabetes Prevention Program has been cancelled as part of the #ColumbiaUniversity #NIH grant terminations. This study has been ongoing since 1996. It’s hard to describe the disruption and impact of cancelling this study. @altnih4science.bsky.social

Opinion | The free-living bureaucrat Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.

"An amoeba that on very rare occasions enters and eats the human brain isn’t a problem the free market is likely to solve. There are never enough people dying of Balamuthia and willing to pay for a cure for a big pharmaceutical company to spend the money to find one."

Column | This women’s college hoops coach lost his job in government’s mass firings Adam Strom intends to finish the season at Haskell Indian Nations University, but he won’t be getting paid for it after recent federal cuts.

“I paid very little attention to politics,” Adam Strom said. “... They were talking about layoffs, cuts, executive orders. I was like, ‘Nobody’s worried about an NAIA coach in Lawrence, Kansas.’”

Until they were.

Column by @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

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Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funding A coalition of 22 attorneys general sued the federal government Monday, claiming that the $4 billion in cuts would “grind to a halt” studies on cancer, heart disease and other conditions.

The latest --- Funding cuts are stopped in CA, IL, NY, MD, WI, NJ, etc... but not in PA, GA, AL, MO and others...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

“A sane government would never do this.” — the former dean of Harvard Medical School

Universities are reeling. Elon Musk’s allies are celebrating.

Looking at the major cut to federal research funding — which many scientists predict will be devastating

With @lenasun.bsky.social and Carolyn Johnson

Do you live in a walkable neighborhood or suburban sprawl? Explore more than 200 metro areas and see how your neighborhood ranks in today's Climate Lab column.

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