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Courtesy of Scott Delaney A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut By combining government information with crowdsourced submissions, environmental health researcher Scott Delaney has helped gather what appears to be the most detailed, public accounting of projects halted by the world's largest funder of biomedical research. Read more. By Anil Oza Molly Ferguson for STAT Matt's Take: With Covid vaccine decisions, RFK Jr. unleashes an unfettered assault on public health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s unilateral decision that the CDC would no longer recommend Covid-19 shots for healthy people during childhood or pregnancy represents a bulldozing of safeguards intended to keep public health officials honest and their decisions transparent. Read more. By Matthew Herper In case you missed it With aura readings and a Lauryn Hill concert, Philip Morris rolls out a new tobacco product in the U.S. AI-based mammography is here, and it has a trust problem A rare disease drug is rejected, even as the FDA talks about new approval pathway At a major genome-editing summit, spotlight turns to the value of human life Opinion: How we beat anti-vaccination bills in North Dakota

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