Award-winning journalist Katie Couric said it’s “chilling” what’s happening to scientific research under the Trump administration. WHY IT MATTERS: Couric, who encouraged health screenings well before wellness influencers rose to fame on social media, spoke about what changes could mean for the future of medical advancements at Axios’ Future of Health Summit in D.C. “From 2010 to 2019, 254 of the 256 new therapeutics approved by the FDA were all the result of at least partial research by the NIH,