The Latest Breaking News from NIH

HHS, like all government programs, has plenty of silly and wasteful line items in its budget; there's no need to just make things up.

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March 2025. To date, 147 people have been reportedly diagnosed with TB in the…

As much as half of the fentanyl sold on Philly’s streets contains an industrial chemical used in plastics manufacturing. That’s according to our November 2024 testing of fentanyl samples collected in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, regarded as the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast.

Ripple effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on U.S. medical research promise to reach every corner of America

The field’s failure to integrate medical services in the mid-20th century set the stage for its current troubles

Jay Bhattacharya tells hearing he is intent on protecting research, even as president takes axe to federal funding

A federal judge is preventing the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding

President Donald Trump honored and applauded a young cancer survivor during his recent joint address to Congress despite his numerous attempts to cut funding for healthcare, including pediatric cancer research.

The Stanford health economist selected to lead the NIH has been criticized for his opposition to lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Academic research into AI is at risk from President Trump's cost-cutting, critics say.

Today’s septuagenarians are different from the ones who came before, becoming grandparents and retiring later