My rare disease was getting closer to a cure. RFK Jr could undermine that | Jameson Rich
The Trump administration’s funding cuts to the NIH could destroy a wave of approaching research breakthroughs
Since Robert F Kennedy Jr assumed control of the US health department in February, with a mandate to “[lower] chronic disease rates and [end] childhood chronic disease”, he has moved quickly to remake the US’s federal health infrastructure. But the Trump administration’s actions on medical research are already threatening that goal – and could end medical progress in this country for good.