NIH tells grant reviewers how to ensure alignment with Trump

Signaling a move toward the next phase of change, leaders at the National Institutes of Health have sent new guidance to its staff on how to further move its $39 billion portfolio in alignment with the Trump administration’s priorities.  The seven-page guidance, sent on Friday and titled “Reviewing Grants for Priority Alignment,” provides details to […]

At AHRQ, cuts undermine federal research on how to improve health care

WASHINGTON — A small federal agency that studies how to improve the health care system has been rendered functionally “incapacitated” after much of its staff was laid off or retired, according to three people, including two former employees, who spoke with STAT.  The loss of most of the workers at the Agency for Healthcare Research […]