Feb 28, 2026 | Healthcare, NIH, Vaccinations
By: Ian Karbal – February 25, 2026 2:45 pm Gov. Josh Shapiro joined a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decision to overhaul the national childhood immunization schedule. The suit is...
May 5, 2025 | Budget, NIH
Jennifer Shutt and Ariana Figueroa – Pennsylvania Capital-Star WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump released a budget request Friday that would dramatically slash some federal spending, the initial step in a monthslong process that will include heated debate on...
Apr 8, 2025 | Healthcare, HHS, NIH
Jennifer Shutt – Pennsylvania Capital-Star WASHINGTON — A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction blocking the National Institutes of Health from implementing a policy that would cap the amount of funding research universities and medical schools receive...
Apr 1, 2025 | CDC, Healthcare, HHS, NIH
Carolyn Y. Johnson, Rachel Roubein, Joel Achenbach, Lena H. Sun and Lauren Weber – Washington Post Senior leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were put on leave and countless other employees lost their jobs Tuesday as the Trump...
Mar 28, 2025 | CDC, Healthcare, HHS, NIH
Katherine J. Wu – The Atlantic By design, clinical trials ask their participants to take on risk. To develop new vaccines, drugs, or therapies, scientists first have to ask volunteers to try out those interventions, with no guarantee that they’ll work or be free...
Mar 27, 2025 | CDC, DOGE, Healthcare, HHS, Musk, NIH, Vaccinations
HIT Ed: If you haven’t been paying attention, the U.S. healthcare system, the best in the world, is being systematically and rapidly destroyed by the Trump/Musk administration. Spending cuts on vaccine development, cancer research, support for state health...
