Trump administration halts funding for research on infants with heart defects

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Trump administration halts funding for research on infants with heart defects

President Donald Trump’s administration has halted funding for a team researching how to help infants with heart defects.Dr. James Antaki, a professor of biomedical engineering at Cornell University, tells NBC News that the Department of Defense has cancelled a $6.7 million grant that would allow him to continue researching PediaFlow, a device that could boost blood flow in infants with heart defects.Antaki’s device, which he began developing in 2003, is the size of an AA battery and helps increase blood flow to babies born with a hole between the chambers of their heart. The device helps babies survive until they ..