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The Trump Administration’s efforts under the Trump administration to cut back on federal funding from the National Institute of Health, for research programs at universities and medical systems, have been blocked nationwide.

On Monday, lawyers representing dozens told research institutions, Judge Angel Kelley of the Federal District Court of Massachusetts that the change “will destroy critical public health research at universities and research institutions in the United States. Without relief from NIH’s action, these institutions’ pioneering work to heal and treat human disease will be abraded. ”

Almost all of the academic and medical communities across the country went to court to seek relief.

On hundreds of pages with swore statements, more than 30 medical system research directors and university leaders describe how research financing cuts would ruin their work and harm patients.

A chemistry professor from the State University of New York, who is studying Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, wrote that the cost reduction of NIH “will cost thousands of Americans their lives.”

More about legal challenges: Another lawsuit Monday from US research universities – healed by prominent conservative lawyer Paul Clement and other major lawyers – also told the court that the NIH cuts would “destroy medical research.”

A third -like trial on Monday submitted from larger groups representing medical schools, pharmacy schools and hospitals, had asked Kelley to expand his original action to not only apply to states that had been sued.

Judge Kelley agreed with 22 democratic -led states that cost cut should be temporarily blocked.

Late Monday night, Kelley expanded the NIH cost-saving nationwide, wrote NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services and “their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointed and successors are hereby connected from taking steps to implement, applying or enforcing” nih -The cost savings “in any form with regard to institutions nationwide until additional order is issued by this court. ”