Lithium in the brain has been found to protect against cognitive decline. Restoring lost lithium could be a new angle from which to tackle Alzheimer's disease.
Bidding is underway now between surgeons who are offering to work for less whenever state employees walk through their doors, in exchange for a guaranteed stream of patients on the North Carolina State Health Plan.
In a scathing report issued Tuesday, the GAO found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved. The independent congressional watchdog said that in terminating over 1,800 NIH grants in response to President Trump's executive orders directing agencies to cut off federal funding for equity-related activities, the administration illegally withheld funds. In addition, the GAO found that the NIH's $8 billion shortfall in new and continuing awards between February and July amounted to an illegal withholding of obligated funds.