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NIH staff and allies hold weekly vigils in Bethesda, protesting Trump-era cuts, layoffs, and what they call an assault on ...
"It's been a really difficult time to be running a lab," said Annika Barber, an assistant professor at Rutgers New Brunswick.
Wyoming’s Kindness Ranch is cheering the shutdown of a notorious beagle testing lab and proposed federal legislation that ...
At a moment when medical science and health research are seen as increasingly important, the entire Harvard Medical School ...
Funding cuts for HIV prevention efforts in underserved communities threaten lives and public health in the Southern U.S.
Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told Fox news on Thursday that the NIH and Vice President JD Vance hope to address the public health concerns ...
President Donald Trump could sign a sweeping executive order banning gain-of-function research — research that makes viruses more dangerous in ...
But a closer look at the fine-print of the order suggests it does not go as far as the full-scale ban on the research that ...
For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism's causes in ...
The Trump administration is proposing a significant $163 billion cut in federal spending for fiscal year 2026, targeting ...
James Antaki has worked for over 30 years on a device to help infants with holes in their hearts and other defects. Now it’s ...
This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Swamp Notes — Trump takes on higher ed’ ...