All posts tagged "Medical Research"

First lady Melania Trump celebrated Valentine's Day on Wednesday by visiting a group of children receiving medical care who appeared to be very quiet around her.

Melania was visiting the Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, when she walked into a room full of crafting kids and noticed the awkward silence. A Fox News video shared on social media platforms featured the moment.

She walked up to a table and said, "Don't be so quiet. It's a celebration day, right?" ...

The Trump administration's emphasis on right-wing ideology has had a chilling effect on life-saving medical research — and the researchers themselves — at the National Institutes of Health, according to a new opinion piece in Bloomburg.

NIH "is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality jobs," according to the government website. "More than 80% of its $48 billion budget" goes to to fund scientific research at universities and hospitals around the country.

But the website language may be changing now that DOGE has put a halt to NIH funding programs that "didn’t align with the administration’s political ideology," like "LGBT+ health, gender identity, diversity, equity and inclusion; vaccine hesitancy; and mRNA vaccines," the article said. ...