一项用于儿童心脏器械的联邦赠款被取消,推迟了4岁的Caleb Strickland等儿童的救命治疗。 A federal grant for a child heart device was canceled, delaying life-saving treatment for kids like 4-year-old Caleb Strickland.

Caleb Strickland四岁患有心脏病的男孩Caleb Strickland在等待移植手术期间依赖一个大型外部装置生存,限制了他的行动能力,迫使他的家人住在医院里。 A 4-year-old boy with heart failure, Caleb Strickland, relies on a large external device to survive while awaiting a transplant, limiting his mobility and forcing his family to live in a hospital. 康奈尔(Cornell)的詹姆斯·安塔基(James Antaki)开发的可移植人工心脏PediaFlow(PediaFlow)在600万美元联邦赠款的资助下,接近临床使用。 A promising implantable artificial heart, PediaFlow, developed by Cornell’s James Antaki, was nearing clinical use, funded by a $6 million federal grant. 4月,特朗普政府取消了这笔赠款,作为针对大学的更广泛的行动的一部分,针对据称的公民权利和反犹太主义问题采取行动,阻止在一种可以改变对有严重心脏病的儿童的护理的装置上取得进展。 In April, the Trump administration canceled the grant as part of broader actions targeting universities over alleged civil rights and antisemitism issues, halting progress on a device that could transform care for children with severe heart defects. 这一取消是100亿美元资金削减的一部分,推迟了潜在的突破,使像Caleb这样的家庭无法获得改变生活的技术。 The cancellation, part of a $10 billion funding cut, has delayed a potential breakthrough, leaving families like Caleb’s without access to life-changing technology.