Women's Health Initiative study loses federal funding : Shots - Health News : NPR

"The Trump administration is shutting down most of a landmark federal project studying women's health, stunning researchers around the country....The study, begun in the 1990s, has produced a series of groundbreaking results and was continuing to gather valuable data about women's health....Neither the National Institutes of Health, which funds the study, nor HHS, which oversees the NIH, responded to NPR's questions about the matter....One big question is what will happen to the huge repository of data, including blood and urine samples and genetic material, which represents a treasure trove that could be mined to make yet more important discoveries. 'We are really the guardians of the database – the biorepository. There's a glimmer of hope that we might be able to continue, but we don't know.'"