A federal judge in Massachusetts indicated she would move quickly to consider a more lasting injunction after hearing a laundry list of potential adverse effects of the Trump administration move to cut billions in funding.

The new National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer's, cancer, heart disease, and a host of other illnesses -- anything from clinical trials of new treatments to basic lab research that is the foundation for discoveries.