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Below are a selection of useful sources of information:

The Washington Post
The New York Times
Nature
Science
The New England Journal of Medicine (Health Policy pages)
The BMJ (News & Views - see in particular the "Trump watch" articles)
The Chronicle of higher education

Looi, M-K, and Bowie, K. (2025). "Autism: Trump links condition to Tylenol and touts leucovorin as 'first' US therapeutic". BMJ, 24 September.
Tanne, J. H. (2025). "US vaccine committee changes MMR and hepatitis vaccine schedules amid criticism". BMJ, 22 September.
Tait, R. (2025). "Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism". The Guardian, 22 September.
Erman, M., Sunny, M.E and Steenhuysen, J. (2025). "US vaccine advisers abandon broad COVID shot support". Reuters, 20 September.
Faust, J. (2025). "BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 pages are down." Inside Medicine, 20 September.
CDC (2025). CDC Priorities. 17 September.
Dall, C. (2025). "HHS names 5 new members to CDC vaccine advisory board". CIDRAP, 15 September.
Williams, S. (2025). "What MAHA's new Making Children Healthy Again report says - and what it doesn't". BMJ, 12 September.
Lakhani, N. (2025). "Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation Grants". The Guardian, 11 September.
Farrell, R. and Hartley, K. (2025). "What's at risk when we lose public access to data and information?" Health Beat, 4 September.
Sherman, C. (2025). "RFK Jr hints access to key abortion drug could be cut back". The Guardian, 4 September.
Stobbe, M. (2025). "Trump administration agrees to restore health websites and data". ABC News, 3 September.
Muller-Heyndyk, R. (2025). "RFK Jr. 'endangering' Americans, say former CDC bosses". BBC News, 2 September.
Milman, O. and Noor, D. (2025). "Trump team's contentious climate report 'makes a mockery of science', experts say". The Guardian, 2 September.

Associated Press (2025). "EPA fires employees who publicly criticized agency policies under Trump". CNN, 30 August.
Yousif, N. and Bowes, P. (2025). "White House names RFK Jr deputy as replacement CDC director". BBC News, 29 August.
Tanne, J. H. (2025). "CDC director is forced out over vaccine policy, and four senior scientists resign". BMJ, 29 August.
Schreiber, M. (2025). "RFK Jr faces calls to quit as CDC chief fired and senior staff resign: 'an embarrassment'." The Guardian, 28 August.
Dall, C. (2025). "ACIP to review COVID, hep B, and MMRV vaccine recommendations at September meeting". CIDRAP, 28 August.
Dall, C. (2025). "CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance programe". CIDRAP, 28 August.
Daskalakis, D. (2025). "Resignation letter from CDC". [X] 28 August.
Milman, A. (2025). "White House threatens sex education funds unless states nix references to transgender people in curriculums". The Guardian, 27 August.
Tanne, J. H. (2025). "Over 5000 US government health employees denounce 'dangerous and deceitful' RFK Jr statements". BMJ, 26 August.
Manalac, T. (2025). "CDC names vaccine critic Retsef Levi as head of COVID-19 workgroup". BioSpace, 26 August.
Dyer, O. (2025). "NIH director orders review of all grants, as new research priorities are announced." BMJ, 26 August.
Mordowanec, N. (2025). "RFK Jr. may roll back major achievement Donald Trump called 'monumental'." Newsweek, 25 August.
Associated Press (2025). "US health department moves to strip thousands of employees of collective bargaining rights". The Guardian, 22 August.
Associated Press (2025). "Supreme court allows Trump officials to cut research millions in anti-DEI push". The Guardian, 22 August.
Friedman, A. (2025). "RFK Jr. attacks pediatricians' group over vaccine recommendations". Politico, 20 August.
Tanne, J. H. (2025). "Leading US journal refuses RFK Jr's request to retract childhood vaccine study". BMJ, 18 August.
Reuters. (2025). "US orders Vaxart to stop COVID-19 trial amid mRNA wind down". Reuters, 14 August.
Yarney, G. and Beyrer, C. (2025). "The dismantling of the U.S vaccine regulatory framework", Vaccine, 62. Available online 12 August.
Erman, M. and Rigby, J. (2025). "Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study". Reuters, 11 August.
Singh, K. and Ward, J. (2025). "Trump signs executive order targeting spending on grants." Reuters, 8 August.
AFP (2025). "US to rewrite its past national climate reports". France 24, 7 August.
Guardian staff and agencies (2025). "RFK Jr's health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research". The Guardian, 6 August.
Hopkins Tanne, J. (2025). "Robert F Kennedy Jr pulls funding for mRNA vaccine research". BMJ, 6 August.
Cartier, M. S. (2025). "NASA planning for unauthorized shutdown of carbon monitoring satellites." Eos, 5 August.
Bowie, K. (2025). "France pressured to stop US plan to destroy almost $10m of aid funded contraceptives". BMJ, 4 August.
AP (2025). "AMA and other medical associations are kicked out of CDC vaccine workgroups". AP, 4 August.

Moniuszko, S. (2025). "Former vaccine panel ousted by RFK Jr. says scientific rigor is "rapidly eroding". CBS News, 31 July.
Kaleem, J. (2025). "Trump freezes $300 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism". LA Times, 31 July.
Noor, D. and Milman, O. (2025). "Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations - can anything stop this?". The Guardian, 31 July.
Guardian staff and agency. (2025). "White House freezes $108m in funds to Duke University over affirmative action". The Guardian, 30 July.
Looi, M-K. (2025). "Trump watch: US rejects WHO health regulation amendments, EPA eliminates research arm, and FDA appoints former pharma executive to drug oversight". BMJ, 23 July.
Dyer, O. (2025). "US government says it will cap journal publishing fees from October". BMJ, 21 July.
Freilich, J. and Kesselheim, A. (2025). "Data manipulation within the US Federal Government". The Lancet, 19 July.
Looi, M-K. (2025). "Trump watch: Doctors are subpoenaed over transgender care". BMJ, 16 July.
Carney, J. and Dumay, C. (2025). "Global AIDS funding to be pulled from Trump clawbacks request". Politico, 15 July.
Pagel, C. (2025). "America's retreat from science has far-reaching implications for global research and innovation". Diving into Data & Decision making, 14 July.
Kozlov, M. (2025). "Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities". Nature, 14 July.
Looi, M-K. (2025). "Trump watch: RFK Jr approves prior vaccine committee recommendations, foreign doctor visa delays, and more". BMJ, 10 July.
Kaiser, J. (2025). "NIH director is replacing his top outside advisory board". Science, 10 July.
Dyer, O. (2025). "NIH temporarily reverses subaward policy, allowing international trials and South African awards to continue". BMJ, 9 July.
Smith, D. (2025). "US supreme court clears way for Trump officials to resume mass government firings". The Guardian, 8 July.
Heath, L. (2025). "Trump pulls plug on UK research into air pollution and global warming". inews, 8 July.
Mandavilli, A. (2025). "Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S Over Vaccine Advice". The New York Times, 7 July.
Lakhani, N. (2025). "Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts". The Guardian, 3 July.

Schreiber, M. (2025). "Who is in charge at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?". Guardian, 29 June.
Despa, A. and Diaz, S. (2025). "Stalled funding, cancelled grants: How the NIH crisis is affecting Duke". Duke Chronicle, 27 June.
Gedeon, J. and Singh, M. (2025). "US supreme court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders." The Guardian, 27 June.
Looi, M.K. (2025). "Trump watch: Senator questions authority of new vaccine panel and asbestos ban is under threat". BMJ, 25 June.
Kaiser, J. (2025). "House Democrats slam RFK Jr. for research funding cuts, vaccine policy". Science, 24 June.
Looi, M.K. (2025). "Appointment of FDA critic Vinay Prasad to senior role in agency prompts departures". BMJ, 24 June.
Tanne, J. H. (2025). "NIH ordered to restore 800 research grants cancelled by Trump". BMJ, 23 June.
Vaccine Integrity Project Staff and Advisers. (2025). "Viewpoint: CDC's upcoming vaccine advisory meeting set up to sow distrust in vaccines". CIDRAP, 23 June.
Mandavilli, A. (2025). "Why a vaccine expert left the C.D.C.: 'Americans are going to die'". The New York Times, 18 June.
Looi, M.K. (2025). "Trump watch: A second CDC expert resigns over loss of confidence in vaccine policy". BMJ, 17 June.
Kozlov, M. (2025). "Judge rules against NIH grant cuts - and calls them discriminatory". Nature, 16 June.
Asturias, E.J, Brewer, N.T, Brooks O. et al. (2025). "Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads". JAMA, 16 June.
Sun, L.H and Weber, L. (2025) "RFK Jr. purges every vaccine adviser on CDC panel, will pick replacements". The Washington Post, 10 June.
Gedeon, J. and Tait, R. (2025). "Trump administration to cut all USAID overseas roles in dramatic restructuring". The Guardian, 10 June.
Woodward, C. and Ellgren, N. (2025). "NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research". AP News, 9 June.
Dyer, O. (2025). "White House scrambles to correct error strewn MAHA report". BMJ, 4 June.
Looi, M.K. (2025). "Trump watch: confusion over covid-19 vaccination, HIV vaccine funding withdrawn, and more". BMJ, 3 June.
Dyer, O. (2025). "Trump's 'gold standard science' rule would let political appointees edit government science and punish scientists, critics say". BMJ, 02 June.
Burke, J. (2025). "Trump budget ends all CDC HIV prevention programs, while maintaining care, treatment, and prep". HIV+HEP Policy Institute, 2 June.
Pifer, R. (2025). "HHS releases more detailed 2026 budget disclosing scope of cuts". Healthcare Dive, 2 June.
Glantz, A. (2025). "Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance". The Guardian, 1 June.

Robins-Early, N. and Leingang, R. (2025). "Salutes, Maga hats and mass layoffs: Elon Musk at Doge - a timeline". The Guardian, 30 May.
Delawalla, C., Ambros, V., Bergstrom, C. Greider, C., Mann, M., Nosek, B. (2025). "Trump's new 'gold standard' rule will destroy American science as we know it". The Guardian, 29 May.
Gedeon, J. (2025). "RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals". The Guardian, 28 May.
Flannery, M. E. (2025). "Trump cancels federal research grants. What are the consequences?" neaToday, 27 May.
Wendling, M. (2025). "Harvard sues Trump administration for blocking foreign student enrolment". BBC, 23 May.
Kozlov, M. (2025). "NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk's DOGE". Nature, 21 May.
Smith, P. A. (2025) "The Chilling Effect of DEI Crackdowns in Scientific Publishing". Undark, 14 May.
Bastian, H. (2025). "Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net". Absolutely Maybe, 14 May.
Nelson. A. (2025). "Why I’m Resigning from Positions at the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress". Time, 13 May.
Cornwall, W. (2025). "Trump's 'fear factor': Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate". Science, 12 May.
Olivares, J. (2025) "Trump reportedly fires head of US copyright office after release of AI report". The Guardian, 12 May.
Fox, V. (2025). "Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries". ACRLog, 11 May.
Associated Press (2025). "Trump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government." The Guardian, 9 May.
Mervis, J. (2025). "Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions". Science Insider, 8 May.
Liu M, Kadakia KT, Patel VR, Krumholz HM. (2025). "Characterization of Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health". JAMA, 8 May.
Krempl, S. (2025) "Because of Trump: Central Medical Library builds alternative to US database". Hein Online, 5 May.
Hudson, R. (2025). "Trump halts new NIH grants to international health-research partners". Science|Business, 5 May.
Reinhart, E. (2025). "The scary implications of U.S. Government attacks on medical journals". Scientific American, 1 May.

Pagel, C. "Warning signs realised: Trump's war on science and the fight to save American academia". Diving into Data & Decision Making, 28 April.
Furlow, B. (2025) ‘NIH access bans imperil global scientific cooperation’, The Lancet (British edition), 405(10488), April 26, pp. 1453–1454.
Mervis, J. (2025). "Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy". Science, 24 April.
Barshay, J. (2025) "Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week". Governing, 22 April.
Gilmour, J. (2025). "The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data". The Guardian, 21 April.
Glenza, J. (2025). "Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on 'lab leak' theory". The Guardian, 18 April.
Gilbert, D. (2025). "HHS systems are in danger of collapsing, workers say". Wired, 14 April.
Stone, R. (2025). "Researchers from China and five other 'countries of concern' barred from NIH databases". Science, 10 April.
Askham, A. V. (2025). "U.S. human data repositories 'under review' for gender identity descriptors". The Transmitter, 9 April.
Kaiser, J. (2025) "After April Fools' Day purge, U.S. health agencies spiral into chaos". Science, 9 Apr.
Jooste, I. (2025). "Trump has blown a massive hole in global health funding - and no one can fill it". Science, 8 Apr.
Babor TF, Adinoff B, Clark L, et al. "A clarion call to the addiction science community: It’s time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2025;42(2):107-112.

Haeder, S.F. (2025) "Massive cuts to Health and Human Services' workforce signal a dramatic shift in US health policy". The Conversation, 31 March.
Dyer, O (2025). "What is happening to the US National Institutes of Health?" BMJ, 28 March.
Wu, Katherine, J. (2025). "The NIH's Most Reckless Cuts Yet". The Atlantic, 27 March.
Aboulenein, A. and Roy, S. (2025). "US health department cutting 10,000 workers under Kennedy". Reuters, 27 March.
Kozlov, M. (2025). "Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal". Nature, 26 March.
Antin, T. and Annechino, R. (2025). "Resisting Attacks on Science". Center for Critical Public Health, 21 March.
Allen, A. (2025). "Scientists say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants". KFF Health News, 16 March.
Morabia, A. (2025). "AJPH and the Threat of Political Interference in Scientific Publishing". American Journal of Public Health, 13 March.
Gaind, N. (2025). "How the NIH dominates the world's health research - in charts". Nature, 10 March.
Reardon, S. (2025). "NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines". Science, 10 March.
Kozlov, M. and Mallapaty, S. (2025). "Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants". Nature, 6 March.
Mallapaty, S (2025). "'Omg, did PubMed go dark?' Blackout stokes fears about database's future". Nature, 4 March.
Rubin, E. J. (2025). "Order out of chaos". New England Journal of Medicine, 392(12), pp.1229-1230. 3 March.

Editorial (2025). "Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere". Nature, 25 Feb.
Peter Allebeck, Tit Albreht, Charlotte Marchandise, Martin McKee (2025). "Why the European Journal of Public Health and EUPHA are opposing President Trump’s attack on the language of diversity". European Journal of Public Health, 35(2), pp. 195-196. Published 22 Feb.
Bastian, H. (2025) "What if We Can't Rely on PubMed?". Absolutely Maybe, 14 Feb.
McFarling, U. L., Chen, A. and Owermohle, S. (2025). "Growing number of federal health agencies are combing grants for taboo words, unnerving researchers". STAT, 13 Feb.
Clark J, Abbasi K. (2025). "Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology". BMJ, 4 Feb.
Miller, N. S. (2025). "As the US government removes health websites and data, here's a list of non-government data alternatives and archives". The Journalist's Resource, 3 Feb.

Stobbe, M. (2025). "CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal". AP News, 27 January.