‘Nobody answers’: The unraveling of a patient care research agency A small federal agency responsible for studying how health care works for patients is largely dormant despite receiving millions of dollars from Congress for research into antibiotic resistance, healt...

If you care about #healthcare, read this then call your senator to support #AHRQ.

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This is way way waaaay more than a government shutdown. This is a purposeful gutting. The grant office went from a staff of 40 to 1. Take a look at AcademyHealth updates.

Was that an AI review? I’ve been seeing rather odd reviewer comments lately.

I’m not sure that page is updated - I believe it is from September 2025. And I don’t think any of those updated items from Sept 2025 were ever funded at any amount.

My Saturday morning reading

This means that the United States does not have an agency funding or supporting healthcare at the point of care.

If you work in healthcare, you should be outraged, share this, contact you Senator and Representative, and ask your org or institutional leadership to make a formal statement.

So from what I understand, *ALL* #AHRQ NOFOS are now terminated. None active, none forecasted. The administration effectively “quiet” shutdown the entire Agency…

#AHRQ #HHS #HSR #Healthcare

Call your US Senator and US Representative today and tell them #AHRQ and American Healthcare deserve better.

#healthcare #HSR #science

Research to advance primary care - CANCELLED
Research to test / share actual practices that work - CANCELLED
train the next gen researchers - CANCELLED

#AHRQ has not funded a single new grant to improve US healthcare in nearly a year, & awarded grants have not received awarded research dollars.

Many of the leading healthcare safety and quality researchers in the world are based in the US... which is why it pains me to see so many cancelled funding opportunities from the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ( #AHRQ).

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Here’s the latest.

What’s happening in #ELP?

F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

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Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse. Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

The new directive asks USDA workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists.

The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.

Confirmed case of Measles at Clemson University
Over 500 cases of Measles in South Carolina

SCGOP finding out the hard way what happens when you let anti-science anti-intellectual conspiracy theorists determine your public health policy.

The Senate passing the science minibus is a good thing.

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Academia is such a strange institution. Do good for society, they say, when you leave to work for a President of the United States. Followed by come back or resign, so we can open your line.

Nearly 4 in 10 Americans wish they had options beyond the Republican and Democratic parties Democrats and Democratic leaners are more likely than Republicans and GOP leaners to say they want more parties (46% vs. 29%).

Really interesting survey about science.

More than eight-in-ten Americans (84%), including Dem/Rep, say government investments in scientific research aimed at advancing knowledge are worthwhile, while only 15% say they are not worth the investments.

As I said in the Senate last year, "Dismantling #AHRQ will have nationwide consequences. It weakens evidence-based care. It hinders health care from addressing emerging threats and dismantles grant programs that support current research and the training of future researchers." #Healthcare

What are we watching in healthcare in 2026? The destruction of our U.S. research infrastructure...

Name corrected; the numbers are still horrific.

I don’t think people understand that #AHRQ #HHS agency that funds hands on research to make healthcare cheaper and safer - like enhancing the process to sterilize surgical instruments or fighting hospital acquired infections - is getting gutted.

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220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency New data offers the first clear view of the impact of the buyouts and firings.

Hey @nytimes.com you misspelled Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

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Spent much of today finding grant opportunities that are a perfect match for my research but no longer exist (ie #AHRQ grants), then tried to make fresh pasta with powdered sugar. Hashtag winning.

A excellent analysis of a horrific act.