Friday, January 16, 2026

Kids with brain cancer were already in a life and death struggle. Then came Trump

Donald Trump has promised to "defeat childhood cancer once and for all". On the frontlines of the disease, scientists and families say the opposite is unfolding. 

 How the country arrived here is no secret. The blueprint for the administration's approach to scientific research was set out by Project 2025, a 920-page report compiled by the rightwing Heritage Foundation. It called for, in effect, the dismantling of the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the world's largest funder of medical research. 

"The NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken," the document says on page 462…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/15/childhood-brain-cancer-trump


 

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