Health

Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding.

Dr. Means, President Trump’s new pick for surgeon general, has focused on the prevalence of chronic diseases and called on the government to scale back on childhood vaccines.

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, alarming researchers and parents.

The research team studying how to improve I.V.F. was a casualty of cutbacks at federal health agencies.

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Generally, researchers will no longer be allowed to direct federal funds to international collaborators.

The request echoes the position the Biden administration took in the case in January, surprising some observers.

The continent’s leaders are hoping to benefit as the Trump administration cuts support for research and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds.

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