We are off to a hot start: Sen. Baldwin says that Jeffrey Taubenberger, head of NIAID (second largest institute) is out. (Bhattacharya did not respond to this)
15 of the 27 institutes currently have acting directors
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Jeffery Taubenberger, the acting head of the NIAID, the NIH’s infectious disease institute, is reported to have stepped down.
The unwelcome surprise for some states and patients in Republicans' Medicaid work requirements:
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RFK Jr. claimed his calendar, including meeting details, is public.
But those records have not been released — despite more than a year of FOIA requests from @statnews.com reporters.
More on the state of transparency at HHS, w/ @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social
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Advocates were already dreading Medicaid's work requirements. New rules are worse than they feared.
NEW: Biden officials prepared extensive plans to be used in the case of disease outbreaks. With Ebola in DRC, the Trump admin has gone its own way, per former CDC officials who previously worked in the Trump admin.
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Watch as NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is questioned by the Senate Appropriations Committee this morning on President Trump’s budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year.
How the Democratic Republic of the Congo's health system — now at the center of the Ebola outbreak — changed after U.S. aid was cut, according to people who worked in the country:
It's not just USAID and CDC cuts affecting outbreak responses:
NIH cuts weakened network primed to respond to outbreaks like Ebola, by @aniloza.bsky.social
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When the Trump administration came into office, it was presented with a playbook, 100s of pages long, detailing how to organize a multi-agency response to threats, including #Ebola. It's not being used, @danielpayne.bsky.social & @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social report. www.statnews.com/2026/05/30/t...
The Biden admin developed hundreds of pages of federal disease response plans — including handling diseases like Ebola and getting exposed Americans back home for treatment.
The Trump admin has largely ignored them.
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Trump officials are disregarding the Biden administration's detailed pandemic plans in favor of their own strategy.
While NIH-funded centers weren’t on the front lines of virus responses like the CDC or USAID, some researchers involved in the network said the cuts have damaged relationships with experts in other co...
A study on alcohol's health risks that was paid for by taxpayers but never released is now out – in a scientific journal. New:
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A government-commissioned study had been meant to inform new dietary guidelines, and found risks associated with even light drinking.
Sources say USAID cuts damaged epidemic preparedness and hampered the DRC's Ebola response, a perfect storm fueling third-largest outbreak in history.
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Trump's cuts to foreign aid likely hampered the detection of the Ebola outbreak and the response to it.
Breaking from @helenbranswell.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social: The acting head of the NIH’s infectious disease institute, NIAID, is reported to have stepped down.
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