News 🚨: The much-anticipated autism report from RFK Jr.'s HHS will point to Tylenol during pregnancy, folate deficiency, among other possible causes of autism. With @nidhisubs.bsky.social Link👇 www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Exclusive: RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies. @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social and @nidhisubs.bsky.social report www.wsj.com/health/healt... via @WSJ

Northwestern University President Steps Down Amid Trump Pressure www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

Hundreds of current and former HHS employees have called on Health Secretary RFK Jr. to resign, as he prepares for scrutiny from Republican and Democratic senators www.wsj.com/politics/pol... by @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social Jennifer Calfas, and Sabrina Siddiqui

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me -- by Susan Monarez www.wsj.com/opinion/robe... (gift link)

From before the Labor Day holiday, ICYMI: Chicago Has a Huge Lead Pipe Problem—and We Mapped It. Collaboration @insideclimatenews.org @grist.org @wbez.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

Letter from 9 former leaders of the CDC www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson — via @wsj.com + @nidhisubs.bsky.social www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Georgia Tech has a strategy for wooing corporate partners. Other universities want in. @nidhisubs.bsky.social reports for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... via @wsj.com

BREAKING: per email sent to agency staff NIH will _NOT_ reterminate the ~900 grants which were reinstated. "[W]e would strongly recommend against re-terminating such grants, because it will likely be viewed as a reapplication of the now-vacated Challenged Directives."

NEW: As the Trump administration overhauls the way the government funds academic research, universities reshaping their budgets are turning to Georgia Tech for advice www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

After six months of turmoil, the loss of the new director and a round of high-profile resignations marks a new low at the CDC (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

NEW: Trump's SCOTUS appointees each shared alarming views in allowing NIH grant cuts. Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett each wrote something in the shadow docket case — disturbing opinions in light of broader attacks on the rule of law. Today, at Law Dork:

"The first sentence of his grant summary included the word “diverse,” but that pertained to “diverse airborne toxicants." Nurkiewicz finally got his renewed funding after he changed the phrase to “a large variety of airborne toxicants." www.wsj.com/health/scien...

Scientists are removing words like “diverse” and “disparities” from hundreds of federal grant renewals to avoid getting flagged in the Trump administration’s focus on eliminating diversity www.wsj.com/health/scien...

Though RFK Jr. said he would add scientists to the HHS workforce, agencies have lost thousands of them, along with colleagues who those scientists depended on to dispatch checks, fix computers and order lab supplies, enabling them to do their jobs. Super important work by @propublica.org colleagues.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration for now to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in health research grants on topics the White House finds objectionable www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... w Louise Radnofsky

From $24,000 to $147,000: How Much Daycare Costs Across America www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

How an Impossible Journey to the U.S. Gave an Injured Boy From Gaza a New Chance www.wsj.com/world/middle...

A prominent pediatrician group is recommending parents inoculate their young children against Covid-19 www.wsj.com/health/healt...

“What do you say when somebody says they want to give you $2 billion?” Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes a record donation to cancer www.wsj.com/health/healt... w @realbachscore.bsky.social

CDC workers were terrified as gunman shot at the agency’s headquarters yesterday. Today they are still reeling from shock, fear — and rage. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

Trump executive order seeks to centralize control of grantmaking under political appointees www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t... from @statnews.com

As measles vaccination rates fall and infections rise, scientists are developing drugs they say could prevent or treat the disease in vulnerable and unvaccinated people www.wsj.com/health/healt...

in which we learn the plural of "census" is not "censi" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — which cares for patients with rare or life-threatening diseases — has tumbled under the second Trump administration. My story based on interviews w/workers and gov’t docs kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The University of California system agrees to negotiate with Trump after more than $500 million in federal research funds are frozen www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... by Sara Randazzo

The U.S. voted against a United Nations resolution called "International Day of Hope" because of "diversity, equity and inclusion." -->climate action, abortion access, and text that's inclusive of transgender people: U.S. delegates have objected to all of it www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The GAO report cited @wsj.com @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social reporting that the OMB had paused new grants from NIH by a footnote in a funding document before reversing course last week www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

NEW: The Trump administration acted illegally when NIH delayed and canceled billions of dollars in grants to scientists earlier this year, a top government watchdog said www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"The entire structure of science could collapse if this is left unaddressed" www.wsj.com/science/scie... @reeserichardson.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social Luis Amaral on the impact of paper mills

Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up With Flood of Fake Papers

Multi-year funding update. Here is a comparison of multi-year funded R01s for 2002-2025. There have been 57 4-year R01s funded in FY2025, all but one in July.

The Trump administration is blocking funding for public health programs run by the CDC, the latest push by the White House to withhold money already approved by Congress @nidhisubs.bsky.social and @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social‬ report for @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Trump administration is blocking funding for a swath of public health programs run by the CDC, the latest flashpoint in a push by the White House to withhold money already approved by Congress www.wsj.com/politics/pol... w @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Update: A Trump administration effort to block all funding that flows to outside health researchers was scrapped Tuesday evening after senior White House officials intervened www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The footnote puts a halt on roughly $15 billion in NIH funding www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

The White House has put new limits on NIH awards to scientists, potentially restricting billions in grants www.wsj.com/politics/pol... New with @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social and Ken Thomas

NEW The Trump administration has put a halt on ALL new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health (Billions of $$), setting up a battle with lawmakers t.co/GEM6JmLCcG via me @nidhisubs.bsky.social and Ken Thomas

ICYMI: RFK Jr. plans to remove all members of USPSTF, the panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover "because he views them as too 'woke.'" www.wsj.com/health/healt... @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social reports

"The standoff is approaching a pivot point. Funds that expire in September have been held up, often without the required notification to Congress. Funds for the NIH, NASA, and foreign aid are among those at risk." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"The administration is in talks with several universities, including Cornell, Duke, Northwestern and Brown, the person familiar with the talks said, though it sees striking a deal with Harvard, America’s oldest university, as a key target."

The deal that the Trump administration struck with Columbia on Wednesday is a blueprint for negotiations with other universities, a White House official said (Gift link) www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Science isn’t the output. Science is the method that is formalized as the output. But ya know.

Neolithic settlement shows women held power near what is considered the birthplace of Chinese civilization www.wsj.com/science/arch...

I am covering Ron Johnson's “Voices of the Vaccine Injured” hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Join me won't you? www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittee...

BREAKING: OMB director Russ Vought said Pepfar had funded $9.3 million to teach doctors in Russia how to perform abortions. It turned out to be untrue. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/h...