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Trump restricts medical research, funding, for most health and human services agencies

The outside of the Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C.
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Orders freezing some work and communications dubbed ‘complete rejection of science’.

US public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization (WHO), effective immediately. A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency this weekend telling them that all agency staff who work with the

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