Asheboro officer jumps into creek to help injured driver after crash, police say
An Asheboro police officer jumped into a creek this week to help an injured passenger inside a car that crashed into the creek, according to an Asheboro Police Department news release. The car overturned in the creek at Salisbury Street and Elm Street. The driver was able to escape the vehicle. The cause of the crash is unknown.
Judge extends temporary block to huge cuts in National Institutes of Health research funding
A federal judge on Friday extended a temporary block of the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and delay new lifesaving discoveries, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley had issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month in response to separate lawsuits filed by a group of 22 states plus organizations representing universities, hospitals and research institutions nationwide.
The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and a host of other illnesses — anything from clinical trials of new treatments to basic lab research that is the foundation for discoveries. During a hearing Friday, Kelley said she was extending that temporary block while deciding on a more permanent ruling. Kelley was appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden. A motion filed earlier this week cited a long list of examples of immediate harm in blue states and red states.
They included the possibility of ending some clinical trials of treatments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, that could leave “a population of patients with no viable alternative.” Officials at Johns Hopkins University were more blunt, saying the cut would end or require significantly scaling back research projects potentially including some of the 600 NIH-funded studies open to Hopkins patients. “The care, treatments and medical breakthroughs provided to them and their families are not ‘overhead,’” university president Ron Daniels and Hopkins Medicine CEO Theodore DeWeese wrote to employees.
