The Latest Breaking News from NIH

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…

In ‘comprehensive’ 409-page report, department claims medical care should be avoided though harms are ‘sparse’

Trump and Musk have gut National Institutes of Health and experts are wary of private efforts’ ability to replicate public service

The Trump administration’s cuts to funding for American universities and research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health, which has an annual budget of US$47 billion to support medical research both in the U.S. and around the world, nearly 800 grants have been…

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Cancer research in the U.S. doesn’t rely on a single institution or funding stream − it’s a complex ecosystem made up of interdependent parts: academia, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology startups, federal agencies and private foundations. As a cancer biologist who has worked in each of these sectors over the past three…

The health secretary has pledged to fight chronic illness, but experts say he risks increasing it with department cuts

First, the good news: Only 11% of Americans smoke cigarettes. But there's bad news, too.

Hundreds of university researchers in the U.S. have had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to end support of research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation

The NIH is planning to gather medical data to support its renewed autism study

The project hopes to uncover 'hidden patterns' in autism by uniting previously disconnected records from across public and private healthcare systems.