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HHS terminates a workforce diversity program

HHS is terminating a National Institutes of Health grant program that supports students from marginalized backgrounds in the biomedical sciences, STAT’s Veronica Paulus reports. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the elimination in a document posted to the federal register yesterday, citing the president’s executive order prohibiting DEI measures.

“There’s going to be a lot of cures for cancer that won’t be discovered because the person didn’t realize they could g

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