‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis

<p>Republican-run states may see worst fallout from slashes to NIH medical funding as maternal mortality climbs in US</p><p>On Tuesday, a few days after the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> announced <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/08/trump-administration-medical-research-funding-cuts">its plan to slash</a> billions of dollars in funding for biomedical and behavioral research, an investigator at a maternal health research center in Pennsylvania told Dr Meghan Lane-Fall that the cuts may lead her to leave academia altogether.</p><p>Lane-Fall urged her not to make any sudden moves. “It’s not like nothing has happened. No one’s threatened her job,” said Lane-Fall, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. “But if she looks six months down the line, it looks uncertain.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-medical-research-funding-maternal-mortality">Continue reading...</a>