Travel, grant and funding cuts ‘stifling’ US health agencies in new Trump era

Halts to external communications, publishing reports and reviewing and approving research a dramatic shift'

US health agency employees are now banned from nearly all travel and certain agencies and programs have been ordered to stop issuing new contracts and grants until further notice.

The limits on travel and spending, announced internally on Wednesday, add to previous indefinite halts on external communications, including publishing new reports or even posting to social media, and on reviewing and approving new medical research, a nearly $50bn industry in the US.