Federal funding cuts jeopardize not only scientific advancement but also the crucial ethical oversight necessary for safe ...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new, joint innovative research initiative that will serve as a key element in fulfilling ...

The NIH’s controversial in-house Clinical Center on its Bethesda, Md., campus had been accused of pushing pneumonia-causing bacteria into 2,000 beagles’ lungs, among other brutal experiments.

Robert Kennedy's plan for rapid autism cause discovery is deemed unrealistic by experts, citing complex genetic and ...

The email also instructs NIH staff to not communicate with the universities about whether or why funds are frozen. Some grants that had previously been awarded to these universities had already ...

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“The idea of the platform is that the existing data resources are often fragmented and difficult to obtain,” Bhattacharya told a panel of NIH advisers in his presentation on Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) today announced the development of the next-generation, universal vaccine platform, Generation ...

NIH grant terminations have led to $1.81 billion in funding cuts, affecting major research institutions and exacerbating health disparities. The National Institute of Mental Health and the ...

As STAT reported last week, the resumption is a sign that the NIH—which has so far in 2025 awarded about $2.8 billion less than usual at this point over the past five years—is beginning to restore the ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution advancing programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. The new rule ...

In an internal NIH email shared by a journalist at Nature on Friday, Michelle Bulls, director of extramural policy at NIH, confirmed the Department of Health and Human Services’ instruction to “hold ...