Thomas J. Lynch Jr. and Howard A. “Skip” Burris III lead two institutions that couldn’t be more different—an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center on one side of the country and a for-profit research enterprise on the other—but they stay up at nights worrying about the same thing.
In back-to-back congressional hearings earlier this week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the massive staff and budget cuts over which he has presided during his nearly four months on the job as well as even bigger cuts still looming on the horizon are a part of a single plan.
Natalie Phelps, a 43-year-old mother of two, has stage 4 colorectal cancer. She has become a central figure in the controversy over the dysfunction the Trump administration’s RIFs and budget cuts have brought to NIH.
Before two consecutive congressional hearings on the Trump administration’s “skinny budget” proposal on May 14, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released a report assessing the administration’s impact on biomedical research.
On May 12, President Trump signed an executive order directing the administration to communicate most-favored-nation drug price targets to pharmaceutical manufacturers for sales in the United States.
The Association of American Cancer Institutes started a monthly newsletter roundup titled “Defending Cancer Research Digest.”
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce budget reconciliation bill, which includes attacks on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage and fails to extend ACA tax credits, would increase the number of uninsured people by at least 13.7 million.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a tracking poll compiling data from the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
Harvard amends lawsuit against Trump administration, includes additional defendants and funding cuts
Harvard University filed an amended lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to add two more federal agencies as defendants and to address the administration’s widening efforts to cut the university’s federal funding—now targeting over $2.6 billion and all future grants.
Texas Children’s Hospital and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced a $150 million gift from Kinder Foundation.
