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The Trump administration canceled a grant studying two low-income, majority Black neighborhoods in PittsburghScientific funding cuts imposed by the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Trump administration</a> may force researchers to close a study on Alzheimer’s disease risk among 600 aging people without sharing the results of cognitive tests with participants – even though researchers have all the data to do so.The Trump administration <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/alzheimers-research-grants-trump-administration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">canceled a federal research grant</a> studying two low-income, majority Black neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in August. Researchers were given 90 days to shut down the study – more than five months earlier than planned. Now, they lack the time and money to assess data collected from trial participants. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/17/trump-cuts-alzheimers-disease-study" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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