Senior NIH official pushes MAHA strategy to skeptical ADA audience
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NEW ORLEANS — A senior adviser to the leader of the National Institutes of Health opened his speech to a national gathering of diabetes researchers with a full-throated endorsement of the Make America Healthy Again movement. Then, during the fireside chat that followed, he withstood sustained cheers for criticism of deep funding cuts to the nation’s biomedical research enterprise that he was asked to explain. “I could have written the MAHA agenda,” Richard Woychik, who works closely with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, said Friday, recalling when he first learned last October of the policy embraced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  Read the rest…