Unique pain research office eliminated in HHS purge
Pain is the most costly chronic health problem in the U.S. In latest RIFs at NIH, an entire division devoted to pain research was closed down.
Last week’s layoffs across the Department of Health and Human Services left a significant casualty in the vast ecosystem of government-backed science: an entire division focused on researching pain.
The reduction in force enacted last week by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated all but one full-time position, out of roughly a dozen, within the National Institutes of Health Office of Pain Policy and Planning, a unit devoted to coordinating pain-related research across the federal government.
