The NIH says funding cuts would save it billions of dollars a year. D.C.-area industry and academic leaders say it would cripple R&D.

Grant funding uncertainty has jeopardized the sustainability of research projects and discouraged researchers.

Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary last ...

TURMOIL AT HHS — The past weekend brought a chaotic purge of the federal workforce across the nation’s health agencies, POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn, Megan Messerly and David Lim report.

A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out ...

The National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump announced this month that it was cutting payments covering ...

A decade ago this past June, my sister died at the National Institutes of Health. I still have faith in them, and I hope that ...

From bipolar disorder to hepatitis, and from strokes to development of magnetic resonance imaging, research tied to NIH grants has changed life for millions of people over time. So why ...

Menopause is a normal part of the aging process for women and refers to the stage when menstrual periods end, and they can no ...

All indicators point to the likelihood that the ongoing 2024-2025 flu season will surpass recent years’ figures for both ...

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

With federal support, universities produce world-changing discoveries and the next generation of exquisitely well-trained ...