{"id":3316,"date":"2025-02-15T23:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T07:29:34","slug":"a-scary-time-to-be-a-scientist-how-medical-research-cuts-will-hurt-the-maternal-mortality-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/a-scary-time-to-be-a-scientist-how-medical-research-cuts-will-hurt-the-maternal-mortality-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A scary time to be a scientist\u2019: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">The US maternal mortality rate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/scorecard\/2024\/jul\/2024-state-scorecard-womens-health-and-reproductive-care\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">almost doubled between 2018 and 2022<\/a>, with rates of deaths among Black and Indigenous expecting or new mothers increasing at a disproportionally fast clip. States that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a> won may be hit especially hard by NIH cuts: they are home to some of the country\u2019s worst maternal mortality rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">To address this crisis, the NIH in 2023 launched a seven-year, $168m initiative to set up more than a dozen research centers to investigate and improve maternal health outcomes, as well as help train new maternal health researchers. The future of these centers \u2013 one of which is co-led by Lane-Fall \u2013 are now in question.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/15\/trump-medical-research-funding-maternal-mortality\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US maternal mortality rate almost doubled between 2018 and 2022, with rates of deaths among Black and Indigenous expecting or new mothers increasing at a disproportionally fast clip. States that Donald Trump won may be hit especially hard by NIH cuts: they are home to some of the country\u2019s worst maternal mortality rates. To &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018A scary time to be a scientist\u2019: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/a-scary-time-to-be-a-scientist-how-medical-research-cuts-will-hurt-the-maternal-mortality-crisis\/\" aria-label=\"More on \u2018A scary time to be a scientist\u2019: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[275,450,578],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funding","tag-maternal-mortality","tag-nih"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}