‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis

Republican-run states may see worst fallout from slashes to NIH medical funding as maternal mortality climbs in US

On Tuesday, a few days after the Trump administration announced its plan to slash billions of dollars in funding for biomedical and behavioral research, an investigator at a maternal health research center in Pennsylvania told Dr Meghan Lane-Fall that the cuts may lead her to leave academia altogether.

Lane-Fall urged her not to make any sudden moves. It's not like nothing has happened. No one's threatened her job," said Lane-Fall, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. But if she looks six months down the line, it looks uncertain."