I called RFK Jr. an "extinction-level" threat to US biomedical science and public health. That extinction is under way.

The Trump administration directed its main biomedical research agency in mid-March to study the physical and psychological effects of gender transitioning among children, incensing some critics, ...

A subway mental health nurse evaluates mentally ill people on New York platforms – and can remove them against their will. Will it help them?

Kevin Hall, a top nutrition researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said he is retiring early, claiming his ...

Some Triangle scientists say they can again access funds through previously terminated awards. A hearing Thursday will ...

A KFF Health News analysis underscores how the NIH funding terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or geographically.

When President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, one group of health researchers was cautiously optimistic that their cause ...

(CNN) — A public health association and one of the nation’s largest worker unions are suing the Trump administration over the abrupt cancellation ... such a policy exceeds the NIH’s authority.

Carrie Wolinetz, a science and health policy consultant who worked for the NIH between 2015 and 2023, said in an email to Inside Higher Ed that the funding approval portions of advisory council ...

Marion Nestle, a prominent food policy researcher ... Hall wrote in a letter late last month to Kennedy and incoming NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. “I thought that after years of defunding ...