The National Institutes of Health funds research, but some scientists fear that funding may be pulled or paused by the Trump administration.

One of the most admired research agencies in the world, the US National Institutes of Health, now has a huge target on its back. How did an organisation supported by both Democrat and Republican politicians become so vulnerable?

Trump has frozen all travel and communications at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the CDC and the National Institutes of Health

Senators pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his past vaccine and abortion remarks in the first of two days of hearings before senators vote on whether to confirm him as President Trump’s health secretary.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at his first confirmation hearing that he isn't trying to take anyone's junk food away if he becomes the secretary of health and human services. His confirmation process begins in the shadow of a scathing Jan.

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, announced that she will step down Friday, 14 months after she took the position on Nov. 9, 2023.

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

The Trump administration continues its deluge of executive orders that directly affect science and research, just days after being sworn in. Following the executive orders (EOs) taking the United States out of the Paris Agreement and World Health Organization and the scientific nonsense in the EO on trans and non-binary people,

In a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, RFK Jr. diagnosed a nation’s health ills but fails to diagnose remedies.

If he is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take over a sprawling bureaucracy with an annual budget that tops $1.7 trillion, with more than 80,000 employees and 13 divisions.

Hirschsprung disease is a rare condition affecting one in every 5,000 babies, according to the National Institutes of Health.

U.S. states have been under siege for the past five days with a flurry of executive orders aimed at dismantling national health. Medicaid payments are frozen, leaving the one in four North Carolina residents who access this program without care.