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Amy Paguirigan

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Amy Paguirigan @vortexing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It’s that time of year to sign up for or donate to Obliteride, the Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s annual fundraising effort. This year this fundraising event feels different to me and it feels like a way to protest. Link to donate is here: secure.fredhutch.org/site/TR/Obli...
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Help Fred Hutch Cancer Center advance innovative research. Donate today!
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NPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025
Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.
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Trump administration plans mass firing at office that funds homelessness programs
Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025
The case, brought by attorneys general in 22 states and the District of Columbia, represents a pivotal test for the administration as it pursues a dramatic review of government spending priorities.
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Federal judge hears arguments to decide the future of Trump's federal funding freeze
The case, brought by attorneys general in 22 states and the District of Columbia, represents a pivotal test for the administration as it pursues a dramatic review of government spending priorities.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
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Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
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Amy Paguirigan @vortexing.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The sometimes invisible costs of disruption in process and lack of clear decision making are really looming large for me these days. The potential lost bc of time passing, talent moving elsewhere, and inertia from lack of decision making that hits the hardest. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
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NPR @npr.org · 19/02/2025
A judge last week ruled that the freeze on foreign aid must be reversed. But Trump's USAID team responded that many contracts give them the right to halt funding.
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Trump officials will not restart most foreign aid despite court order
A judge last week ruled that the freeze on foreign aid must be reversed. But Trump's USAID team responded that many contracts give them the right to halt funding.
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired" Emerging 4th world country in North America! www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The Dep't of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies, including the FDA and CDC. Those laid off included people who evaluate the safety of medical devices. @rachelcohrs.bsky.social @bloomberg.com Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Health Department Layoffs Expand to Medicare, FDA
The Department of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, ...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Spot on.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 15/02/2025
Someone needs to ask DOGE what they did with all our condoms
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
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CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15/02/2025
Republicans are realizing just how much damage these illegal and unconstitutional cuts are doing to their own districts and states. This is what happens when you kowtow to your King instead of standing up for your own Constitutional powers. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Trump’s cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
GOP lawmakers try to intervene with the Trump administration as local fallout grows.
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Amy Paguirigan @vortexing.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I hope the impacts of indiscriminately using a sledgehammer where a scalpel is required are realized quickly enough to avoid permanent damage to our health agencies and research. Trump administration orders CDC and NIH layoffs : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Staff at CDC and NIH are reeling as Trump administration cuts workforce
As many as 1,300 probationary employees at CDC and 1,500 at NIH are losing their jobs. Many fear for the future of public health and scientific research.
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Amy Paguirigan @vortexing.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Ian Demsky on LinkedIn: #cancer
Hi, I'm Ian. I'm a science writer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. And I have an overhead cost job. Here's what I do: Our #cancer center has 150+…
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Washington: In 2024, 2 schools received more than $10 million in grants for a total of $617 million. Of that, $397 million went directly to research and $220 went to facilities and administration. The new rate would bring that to $60 million, a loss of $160 million.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 28/01/2025
NEW: A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County, Kansas, has grown to be the largest in the U.S. since the CDC started tracking the illness in the 1950s.
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Kansas’ tuberculosis outbreak is now the largest in the U.S. since the 1950s
The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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