The Latest Breaking News from NIH

Lawmakers seek answers to questions about sweeping cuts to federal public health infrastructure but Kennedy stays mum.

As the Trump administration continues to make significant cuts to NIH budgets and personnel and to freeze billions of dollars of funding to major research universities – citing ideological concerns – there’s more being threatened than just progress in science and medicine. Something valuable but often overlooked is also being…

Eric Topol says we can prevent age-related disease and live fuller lives – but only if we reject anti-science ‘malarkey’

Comes as Kennedy continues his efforts to find the cause of the ‘autism epidemic’

It's in sharp contrast to Operation Warp Speed, which led to the creation of the COVID vaccines

“We had taken 15 years to build what was destroyed with a single email, halting vital research across the country.”

The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."

The White House on Friday proposed a fiscal 2026 HHS budget that backs the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda of President Donald Trump.

In 2023, there were 4,800 NIH-funded projects with partners in Europe.

Women make up more than 50% of the population, yet before the 1990s they were largely excluded from health and medical research studies.

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database compiled by the scientific community, and it is proposing additional cuts that would reduce the $47 billion budget of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, also known…