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NIH Plans Major Cuts to Vaccine Research Amid Outbreak

3/13/2025

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Public health advocates are in an uproar as the National Institutes of Health prepares to cut or scale back funding for more than 40 vaccine-related research grants. This unsettling move comes on the heels of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s controversial appointment as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, during a troubling measles outbreak that has already seen 222 cases across the U.S.

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Public health advocates are in an uproar as the National Institutes of Health prepares to cut or scale back funding for more than 40 vaccine-related research grants. This unsettling move comes on the heels of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s controversial appointment as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, during a troubling measles outbreak that has already seen 222 cases across the U.S.