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Federal court makes permanent ban on Trump's plan to cut NIH funding

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A federal court has made permanent a ruling against the Donald Trump administration's efforts to slash funding from the National Institutes of Health for medical research programs .

The ruling marks an initial victory for a coalition of academic institutions, that had argued that ongoing research was threatened.

Since January , the Trump administration has sought to cut back on research funding as part of efforts to cut government spending.