Federal judge blocks drastic funding cuts to medical research

A federal judge is preventing the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding. Scientists say the policy will endanger patients and delay new lifesaving discoveries. The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. The judge issued a preliminary injunction, which blocks the cuts while the lawsuit proceeds.

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