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Hello. If you’re not already familiar with Dr. Jeremy Faust he is a talented doctor who holds down a lot of jobs. He is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, Editor-in-Chief of Medpage Today and Author of the Inside Medicine newsletter here on Substack.

This week a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to halt a plan to slash billions of dollars of payments from the National Institutes of Health to university medical research programs. Lawyers for the institutions told the judge that the cuts would “devastate medical research.” The cuts are on hold for now, but the issue will be back in court later this month.

A second judge ordered the CDC and FDA to restore access to websites that hosted information about HIV, reproductive health care and more. The Trump Administration had them taken down when Trump first took office. We’re waiting to see if the administration complies. This order is temporary too, until the court can hear arguments in the case.

Today Dr. Faust and I discuss these cases and more.

Among the topics we cover:

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