Shefali Luthra
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Apple News Today
How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science
They had been in the works of running clinical trials or analyzing data and suddenly were told they could no longer do that. And some of them were able to find stopgap funding from other sources. Some of them are figuring out if they will have to shut down their studies entirely.
Apple News Today
How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science
They're seeing if their universities will appeal these cuts and hoping that they will be able to restore some of that funding.
Apple News Today
How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science
We simply won't get the answers to questions that we had already paid to ask and in turn aren't going to be able to reap the health benefits.
Apple News Today
How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science
She studies uterine fibroids, which are these tissue growths. They are quite common and they cause severe pain. They can cause bleeding. They can cause infertility. They are under-researched. They have a heightened impact for Black women in particular. And we don't know much about them, let alone how to treat them.
Apple News Today
How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science
And she didn't know what to do. She didn't know what this would mean for her research in the long term, whether she would be able to do her research, which she views as a piece of the puzzle of trying to understand fibroids, and also what it means for our ability as a society to improve this condition and ultimately improve the health of people. neglected by our ecosystem.
Apple News Today
How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science
a lot of this sort of comes from this anti-trans rhetoric and this idea that, as the president said in his recent joint address, so we're funding research in transgender mice, which was a really inaccurate mischaracterization of how this research was actually being done. It was looking at
Apple News Today
How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science
whether hormones might affect asthma or breast cancer or other conditions that manifest differently based on sex and gender. But what's really important is there's just a real disinterest in thinking about what gender means in our society and what sex means in our society.
Apple News Today
How Trump’s DEI crackdown is impacting women in science
And that we have seen not only in the NIH cuts, but in how people talk about health funding in a larger sphere, how they talk about international development funding. And it's something that soon will touch many, many aspects of the public infrastructure we've come to take for granted.