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The Trump administration has slashed funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — a 27-year-old powerhouse credited with saving thousands of lives and billions in healthcare costs by improving patient safety and care quality. Despite its work aligning with key health priorities like fighting antibiotic resistance and reducing disparities, the agency is being gutted amid vague promises of a new grant framework. Scientists are stunned: one researcher’s software to cut medical errors lost funding; another’s rural maternal care training was axed. The agency’s legacy includes slashing hospital infections, creating standard patient surveys, and pioneering patient-centered care — yet its future is murky, with whispers of AI replacing human researchers. While some data collection continues, publications have stalled, and a lawsuit claims the halt in grants is illegal — leaving researchers scrambling and patients’ safety at risk.

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