South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to HIV — and could affect American drug companies, too. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/health/south-africa-medical-research-trump.html?smid=bs-share

TODAY, Noon: Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch: Case Presentation & Discussion, "Looking Back and Looking Forward 2025" - Interactive session. Open to all, attend in-person, lunch provided - Johns Hopkins School of Nursing N231. Link for more info: https://mailchi.mp/jhu/z6pu34uy4o-10932602

Challenging Anti-Fatness amid the Climate Crisis - Kayla R. Mehl and Paul A. Tubig | International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/ijfab-2024-0022

Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are ‘void and illegal,’ federal judge rules: The decision by a federal court in Boston hands a temporary victory to researchers https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/nih-research-cuts-ruled-illegal-by-federal-judge-william-young/ via @statnews.com

To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor: Hundreds of graduate students are writing to their hometown newspapers to defend their research, as the Trump administration drastically reduces science funding. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/science/science-budget-cuts-protest-letters.html?smid=bs-share

Exclusive: NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more - Evidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nih-documents-reveal-inconsistencies-grant-terminations-agency-reviews-3200?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_rid=54900593&et_cid=5643320

The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/members-rfk-jr-s-new-vaccine-committee-have-published-little-vaccines?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_rid=54900593&et_cid=5643320

AI Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/magazine/ai-history-historians-scholarship.html?smid=bs-share

In fight over research overhead funding, universities propose alternatives to Trump’s cuts: Coalition acknowledges issues with current system, lays out paths to ‘ensure fair reimbursement’ https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/nih-indirect-costs-universities-float-reform-options-in-response-to-trump-research-cuts/ via @statnews.com

Anne Wojcicki wins back 23andMe, this time as a nonprofit: Co-founder of genetic data company promises to safeguard users’ privacy https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/23andme-anne-wojcicki-wins-back-from-bankruptcy-will-become-nonprofit-ttam/ via @statnews.com

Brian Levine: I’m a fertility doctor, and I think IVF needs more regulation - Recent CDC layoffs make necessary IVF transparency even more out of reach https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/ivf-regulation-cdc-hhs-art-surveillance-fertility-clinic-data-success-rates/ via @statnews.com | First Opinion

Destruction of Public Health and the Environment in Wars in Gaza and Beyond: What Must be Done - Leonard Rubenstein JD, LLM | AJPH https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308175

Female Permanent Contraception Procedures Surrounding the Dobbs v. Jackson Ruling at a Single Institution - Bethlehem Lulseged, Tori Rockwell, Karen Wang, Carolyn Sufrin, Anne Burke, Rebecca Stone, & Anja Frost | Journal of Women's Health https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/jwh.2024.0368

Lessons on living from someone with terminal cancer - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/16/terminal-cancer-diagnosis-palliative-care/

“The whole point is, you want the entity that’s giving advice to the government to be free of both real conflicts and perceived conflicts, because it goes back to trust …” Jeffrey Kahn said https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-replacments-bring-new-conflicts-vaccine-skepticism-to-cdc-acip/ via @statnews.com

Broken Bonds: Caregiving Stability Among Infants Exposed Prenatally to Maternal Incarceration - Bethany Kotlar, Alex Kotlar, Monik Jimenez, Carolyn Sufrin, Aisha Yousafzai, Rebecca Shlafer & Henning Tiemeier | Journal of Child and Family Studies https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-025-03082-3

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine moves | Shots - Health News : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5429732/ancient-miasma-theory-may-help-explain-health-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-vaccine-moves

Mice with human cells developed using ‘game-changing’ technique: Human cells injected into amniotic fluid find their way into fetal mouse organs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01898-z

‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options - KFF Health News https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/prior-authorization-insurer-denials-patients-run-out-of-options/

Decolonizing Digital Health: Reclaiming Equity, Consent, and Governance in Global Health Innovation, Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci - Petrie-Flom Center https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/16/decolonizing-digital-health-reclaiming-equity-consent-and-governance-in-global-health-innovation/