A former top federal health official is accusing the Trump administration of purging science in favor of politics — and ...

While NIH director Jay Bhattacharya focuses on podcasting, his second in command is dramatically remaking the agency.

The former director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID ...

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sued for allegedly firing an infectious disease leader for speaking out against ...

A former NIH official who was fired after filing a whistleblower complaint that alleged she was removed from her position for ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health is seeking to fill nearly half of its top roles at breakneck speed following a wave of ...

A few months into U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, social media users began spreading a rumor that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. planned to ...

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. It’s hard to remember all the earthshaking decisions and events that have transpired with unprecedented speed in the first few months of the Trump ...

At least 900 grants have been terminated, according to one NIH source. Researchers who had millions of dollars' worth of grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are suing the ...

Multiple sources, in different parts of the National Institutes of Health, used the word “bloodbath” to describe what was happening on Tuesday. Though it isn’t necessarily a surprise, given Health and ...

Friday, a federal judge permanently blocked the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from implementing indirect cost caps on research grants. The NIH is now appealing. Judge Angel Kelley for the ...

The WHI, a landmark study on women's health, faces defunding, threatening its regional centers and data collection efforts by September 2025. The WHI's hormone therapy trial has significantly impacted ...