GOP Spends More on Student Loans, Medical Research in 2019 Budget
In his 2019 proposed budget, President Donald Trump called for heavy cuts across federal agencies, including funding for student loans and medical research.

In his 2019 proposed budget, President Donald Trump called for heavy cuts across federal agencies, including funding for student loans and medical research.

The NIH – which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – has seen fit to award the researchers $5.7 million in taxpayer funds for a longitudinal study of these children. The results are expected to give the governmental seal of approval to justify administering life-altering drugs to young children who have no way of currently understanding what their lives will be like as a result.

In an interview with NPR, Goodwin said that, in reviewing places hardest hit by opioid abuse and those with strong Trump support, “there was a clear overlap between counties that had high opioid use … and the vote for Donald Trump.”

The number of children who died from the influenza virus rose by 22, bringing the total pediatric deaths to 84, according to the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) weekly report released on Friday.

Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, named the first 47 university researchers who will join their $3 billion Biohub research institute in a quest to cure all diseases.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell criticized Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) for issuing a report critical of unpaid NFL medical advisors without bothering to contact those doctors.

A report by congressional Democrats charging the NFL with tampering in the granting procedures of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has collapsed after revelations that nearly half of the NFL money already allocated by the federal agency went to the group the league supposedly sought to blackball.

Congressional investigators working under Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) never spoke to a scientist they accuse of wrongdoing in a report accusing the NFL of attempting to manipulate the grant giving of the National Institutes of Health.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Department of Defense (DOD) experts will support the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in its fight against the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the Americas, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook told reporters.

The National Institutes of Health says an American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit has arrived safely at its hospital in Maryland.
