The Latest Breaking News from NIH

Jill Biden announces White House Women's Health initiative

This initiative will target both reproductive health care research and post-reproductive health care such as perimenopause and menopause.

Fortune · Nov 13, 2023

Senate panel advances NIH nominee Bertagnolli - Roll Call

President Biden’s choice to run the National Institutes of Health won approval from a key Senate committee.

Roll Call · Oct 25, 2023

'America Funded It': Rand Paul Blasts Fauci and the Media for Suppressing the Lab Leak Theory

The notion that COVID-19 came from a lab was once touted as misinformation. But now the FBI, the Energy Department, and others agree with Paul.

Reason · Oct 25, 2023

The Real Reason Science Can't Explain Why People Lose Their Sense Of Smell

Despite the increased attention to smell loss more broadly, the sense of smell remains complicated and not fully understood.

Inverse · Oct 7, 2023

The study of smell loss still struggles

The pandemic brought attention to an overlooked condition. But researchers are still fighting to show smell matters

Salon · Oct 4, 2023

Years of research laid the groundwork for speedy COVID-19 shots

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to two scientists whose work led to mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2023

Republicans urge the ignorant to ‘just say no’ to science

Too many Americans now don’t trust the credentialed “elitists” with their graduate degrees and years of research. They’d rather go with the charismatic dunce who cheated his way through high school and can barely speak in complete sentences.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 29, 2023

Living In Polluted Areas Increases Risk Of Breast Cancer, New Study Finds

Breathing in high quantities of particulate matter raises breast cancer chance by 8%, says NIH research

Zenger · Sep 25, 2023

Seismic activities, construction loopholes, population pressure, among others cause for sinking of Joshimath: reports

Joshimath's land subsidence due to its location on a slope of morainic deposits, population pressure, multi-storeyed buildings, and lack of proper water disposal system, according to scientific reports. The reports suggest need for town planning review, construction typology, practices, materials, regulations, and awareness.

The Hindu · Sep 25, 2023

A man bitten by a household spider nearly lost his leg. These are the symptoms he tells others to watch for

Had he waited one more day to seek medical attention, his infection could have been “uncontrollable”, doctors said

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2023