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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. ...

The Department of Government Efficiency's major funding and job cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is having a catastrophic effect on patients across the country who rely on federal programs to treat devastating diseases like cancer, according to a new report.

Yuki Noguchi with NPR wrote that In rural areas like Iowa, with particularly high cancer rates, patients rely on remote technology to connect them to specialists they might not otherwise be able to access. Now, however, DOGE cuts threaten access to the technology and programs they need.

"Doctors, hospitals and policymakers have been trying to fight [cancer] on multiple fronts, from attracting much-needed health care talent, to trying to increase screening, especially across the state's vast rural areas, where patients tend to get diagnosed later with late-stage cancers," Noguchi wrote. "But various Trump administration cuts, from contract freezes to funding caps on research institutions, could hamper or shut down such efforts, potentially leaving Iowans further behind in their fight against cancer."...

The leading US medical research agency has said it would review all government-funded experiments on chimpanzees after an independent panel of experts urged strict limits on their use in biomedical research.