Before the Trump administration, grant cancellations were a rarity — often reserved for cases of outright fraud or data manipulation. But, just months into the current administration, some 2,100 NIH grants, totaling around $9.5 billion, have been terminated. For some time, there was no record of the devastation on the scientific community.
Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory. 'This one's a tough one for me,' Bhattacharya told the audience of researchers and other NIH employees gathered in an auditorium at the biomedical research agency's headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, last Monday, before introducing one of the most divisive topics in science.
Dr. Tyler Crosswhite is serious about the importance of primary care providers and preventive medicine. His reason is simple, yet profound: Both have the potential to save lives.
From food to pharma, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took on all the suspects he's long maligned in a report on health threats to kids — along with one unexpected one: Doctors. Laced throughout the report from Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again Commission are accusations against doctors — for reportedly being influenced by the pharmaceutical industry to overprescribe certain medications and for failing to treat the root causes of disease.
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a blood test that can analyze thousands of proteins in a single test to search for rare disease markers. The researchers hope that their test could help to identify children and adults with rare diseases more quickly as these individuals often have to wait for as long as five years before they get a diagnosis.
If you've spent any time in healthcare leadership or management, you know that patient outcomes hinge on more than just clinical care. Social determinants of health (SDoH)—everything from housing stability to education and food access—play a huge role in shaping health outcomes. But integrating those complex, often siloed factors into healthcare strategies has always been a challenge. That's where innovative solutions like an SDoH enterprise platform come in, turning diverse social and economic data into actionable insights.