Teachers, students and researchers rallied in Boston against proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health.

The medical research world got a reprieve on Friday when a federal judge extended her temporary halt to the Trump administration’s plan to slash National Institutes of Health grant funding. The decision by US District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston spares New England universities,

Hours later, a federal district judge in Boston temporarily blocked the cost cuts in those states that had sued earlier in the day. The judge broadened the order early Tuesday morning to apply to all research institutions nationwide.

A ruling by a federal judge in Boston has paused the battle over National Institutes of Health funding, benefiting universities and researchers even in Republican states that have not participated in the lawsuits.

A federal judge in Boston has ordered a temporary pause nationwide on plans by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to substantially reduce “indirect” research payments to universities,

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts flagship campus are anxiously awaiting a courtroom showdown in Boston on Friday that may determine whether the Trump administration can follow through on its plan to slice National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.

Matt Motta, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health, said the NIH cuts are “quite literally breaking the law.” “The way that indirect rates usually work is that they are a negotiation between the government and those who the government is paying,

A federal judge is continuing to block the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding, with the judge issuing a temporary restraining order earlier this month and extending it during a hearing Friday,

BOSTON >> A U.S. judge extended an order today blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from slashing grant funding for scientific research that could devastate the budgets of thousands of universities and research institutions while she considers whether the National Institutes of Health’s new policy is unlawful.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, challenges the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health over efforts to reduce funding that goes to so-called indirect costs — including lab,

A federal judge in Boston has blocked proposed cuts to National Institutes of Health research funding after Brown University and several other institutions sued the Trump administration over the policy.

Its flagship academic medical centers in Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, anchor a health care hub that is arguably the best in the country, if not the world. Reimbursement rates from insurers are growing more slowly than expenses.