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From gene therapy breakthroughs to preventable disease outbreaks: The health trends that will shape 2026

Live Science's health channel editor makes predictions about the medical breakthroughs and public health shifts to come in 2026.

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‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives

From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States.

The Conversation

Trump’s second term is reshaping US science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes

Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. research and innovation has remained remarkably stable, reflecting the American public’s strong support for investing in basic science.

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The Latest: Hegseth and Rubio brief lawmakers on US military escalation

President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are back on Capitol Hill as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela

The Independent UK

Former NIH scientist sues Trump administration, claims illegal firing over research cuts

A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health has sued the Trump administration, saying she was illegally fired for warning that research cuts were endangering patients and public health

The Independent UK

How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a summer job.

The Conversation

DOGE isn’t dead—it’s been absorbed into the bloodstream of the government, federal employees say

“It’s like taking the dust jacket off of the book and saying, ‘We’ve got rid of the book,’” one federal employee said.

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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic human tissue and was grown in a pig, as an alternative to waiting around for a human organ…

The Conversation

NIH funds new cat experiments despite pledge to phase them out, watchdog reports

White Coat Waste finds $1.7m in NIH grants for cat research months after officials said they were working to end studies

The Guardian - US

Government Research Cuts Hit Older Adults

The Trump administration has slashed funding for medical research, delaying some treatments and cures for health conditions affecting retirees.

Kiplinger

Cognitive Benefits of Gaming: Science Reveals Advantages of Video Games

Learn about proven gaming cognitive benefits and how brain training games boost memory & attention. Gaming science reveals video games sharpen skills like gamers 13 years younger

Player One

Sleep Apnea Symptoms You're Probably Ignoring: Snoring Causes and Night Breathing Issues

Learn the sleep apnea symptoms most people miss, including snoring causes and breathing problems at night, with research-backed insights for early detection.

Medical Daily

There are 8 patterns for long COVID symptoms. Here's what they are

Findings come from the NIH-backed RECOVER Initiative.

Axios

A small Texas think tank cultivated COVID dissidents. Now they’re running U.S. health policy.

People with ties to Brownstone Institute have significant authority over access to vaccines and scientific research.

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Benzinga

Over 74,000 Trial Participants Affected By Government Funding Cuts To National Institutes Of Health

A recent surge in terminations of research grants by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is severely disrupting the landscape of critical clinical research, affecting an estimated 1 in 30 trials and involving over 74,000 participants.

Axios

NIH cuts impacted 74,000 clinical trial patients: study

The termination of federal research grants disrupted about 1 in 30 NIH-funded clinical trials.

The Independent UK

NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says

A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts

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The Independent UK

PHOTO ESSAY: Scientists trying to unravel one of the body's biggest mysteries

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes autoimmune diseases and how to stop the immune system from attacking you instead of protecting you.

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National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters

Between January and mid-October 2025, calls to local 211 helplines from people seeking food pantries in their community held steady at nearly 1,000 calls per day.

Euronews

Lupus, the disease of 1,000 faces, shows how science is tackling mysterious autoimmune conditions

Lupus, which is difficult to treat and on the rise, is part of the group of autoimmune diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.

The Independent UK

How a woman’s journey with lupus reflects science’s way of tackling the disease

Lupus is one of a rogues’ gallery of autoimmune diseases that affect as many as 50 million Americans

The Conversation

Cancer drug quality in Africa is a worry: what we found in a 4-country study

The number of people receiving treatment for cancer has risen dramatically in the last decade in many African countries. For example, 10 years ago in Ethiopia and Kenya, cancer care was available to only a few thousand patients per year in a few hospitals. Today, over 75,000 people receive cancer…

The Conversation

Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning ‘metal-organic frameworks’

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs – along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation of a new class of crystalline materials. It recognized a revolution quietly reshaping how scientists capture, store and…

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Trump now firing whistleblowers as RFK Jr. fires top NIH scientist after she tried to sound an alarm

Just blatantly going after anyone who speaks up.

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