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Washington-the Ministry of Veteran Affairs threw temporary researchers a 90-day lifeguard, the medical studies of which have been overthrown by the comprehensive layoffs of the Trump administration and the cessation of freezing in uncertainty, but their fate remains uncertain.

President Donald Trump's state attitude threatened to eradicate hundreds of studies and clinical studies that are carried out by temporary VA appointments-scientific partnerships, the medical inventions of Mormarks sown from the invention of the pacemaker to the first CAT scan.

But this week the VA withdrew quietly and expanded some research conditions that should expire by 90 days in the next three months and confirmed the VA to USA on Wednesday.

Scientists say that fate of important studies and attempts that are financed by the VA development and research office still hang in the air.

“You never know when we will be hit with new wild news that, as you know, you could simply be completely devastating,” said a researcher of a temporary VA appointment to USA Today. They asked to stay anonymous to protect their study where opioid consumption in veterans concerns.

The loss of a member of her team, which was dropped by the VA in the wave of layoffs and ceremonial cornation, “further delayed our progress in the project,” they said.

The VA did not announce the extension by 90 days. During a temporary reparation, the researchers stated that she left unanswered questions – what happens at the end of the expansion? And will the staff already be released forever?

The VA did not respond to these questions.

“This expansion will ensure the continuity of all VA research efforts, while the department conducts a comprehensive assessment of ongoing research initiatives in order to evaluate their effects on the veterans in healthcare,” said spokesman Peter Kasperowicz in a statement.

The opioid user said it was unclear what the new expansion means for your study. The study had already lost a team member to the Trump. And because your own appointment ends in more than 90 days and is not covered by the expansion of the VA, “there is also no clear solution for me.”

By dismissing administrative workers, which may have to be for medical research and care for medical research and care, the Trump administration removed the team members who were responsible for checking the subjects and made patients tracking. The shots of Trump Aide Elon Musks Doge disturbed studies that should follow the patients over time, said VA researchers and experts.

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In the middle of the widespread cuts of the Trump government with federal authorities, the VA has already released 2,400 employees.

And it's not over yet. According to a memo that was spread between the agency heads and previously reported by USA Today, the VA plans to take at least 76,000 other employees, which could destroy the fear of the legislator and supporter of the agency that had already been briefly occupied.

The VA frees 300,000 positions from freezing, including direct supervisors, and said that “business -critical” positions and contracts in the layoffs were not wiped out.

However, the chaos has already affected the double research dates of the VA, a key system for medical research that affects the fear among scientists – and not just for veterans.

For decades, the VA has shown doctors, professors and researchers from external institutions to carry out temporary studies and clinical studies through double appointments, to make an “inexpensive” opportunity for VA, according to Elizabeth Stout from the National Association of Veterans' Research and Education Foundation.

The congress reported 984 million US dollars for more than 7,270 active VA research projects last year. More than 3,680 main researchers at 102 research locations work on the programs. Many of these scientists have “without compensation” appointments, which means that VA receives access to its work without paying for it – although technically speaking are still federal employees.

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Even these employees were caught in the attitudes, which also included federal dates. It remains unclear whether the expansion of the VA will restore researchers or interrupted studies.

Rashi Romanoff, Chief Executive Officer from Navref, said that the “fate” of researchers who have already been dismissed was uncertain. “In the VA research community, there was a position to maintain critical veteran research initiatives,” she said.

“No conclusion to be picked up”

In its centuries-long history, the research financing of the VA has led to a long series of scientific first, from pacemakers to cat scan. VA researchers are behind important medical studies and technologies that affect veterans, but also the wider public, including prosthetics, PTSD and cancer.

“What is needed is why military service increases the risk of increased,” said Kuldip Dave, Senior Vice President for Research at the Association. As or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a serious disease of the nervous system, the US veterans are moving 1.5 times more often than the general population. Why is unknown.

“Veterans could be a smaller population that can be examined, but what we find out could be effective for all patients,” he said.

More than 60% of VA researchers are also clinicians. Dave said that gives them the unique ability to use their patients in the laboratory what they learn in the laboratory.

“This is the only organization whose focus is on researching the research on veteran needs,” he said.

“It's not like that: 'Oh, if you cut VA employees, the gap will be picked up by someone else.' There is no gap that has to be picked up.