ByBruce Y. Lee,
Senior Contributor.
You know the saying it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye? Well, under the Trump administration this year, there’s been a whole lot of premature termination going on, including the delaying and terminating of many National Institutes of Health grants well before the work was finished. And since researchers use such NIH grant funding to study health and the prevention and treatment of medical conditions, you’ve got to wonder how many someones around the U.S. will end up losing eyes…or limbs, other body parts or even lives because of all these NIH grant cuts in 2025. And in the words of Adele, could that be someone like you?
Well, a new research letter just published in JAMA Internal Medicine has revealed what may be just the tip of the iceberg. But it’s a big tip. NIH grant funding cuts from February 28 through August 15 have already disrupted at least 383 clinical trials that had 74,311 patients enrolled. That included the termination of 118 trials studying cancer in some way, 97 trials studying infectious diseases and 140 trials that were testing some kind of new treatment for some kind of medical condition. That’s kind of a lot of real stuff that’s been affected. And a lot of it could affect you if you do in fact have human body parts.
