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Now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services denies it is doing so. NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya shared the initiative that could create "disease registries" to research autism in a ...
The NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. It issues roughly 60,000 grants a year to nearly 3,000 universities and hospitals. More than 80% of the agency’s $48 ...
In an internal NIH email shared by a journalist at Nature on Friday, Michelle Bulls, director of extramural policy at NIH, confirmed the Department of Health and Human Services’ instruction to “hold ...
Some academic health systems are restructuring their workforces after the NIH said it planned to cap payment rates for maintaining labs, hiring support staff and other research-related overhead.
"We couldn't do what we are doing without NIH support." Dr. Shulman is co-director of the Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital and professor of Neurology at Baylor ...
The email also instructs NIH staff to not communicate with the universities about whether or why funds are frozen. Some grants that had previously been awarded to these universities had already ...
Dr. Kevin Hall, a leading NIH scientist, has retired early, citing censorship concerns under the new Trump 2.0 administration led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hall alleges that his research on ultra ...
The National Institutes of Health’s top expert on ultraprocessed foods resigned Wednesday, saying in a public letter that he was doing so after NIH leaders censored the findings of a study that didn’t ...
Kevin Hall, a top nutrition researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said he is retiring early, claiming his work was censored after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm of the ...
“Unfortunately, recent events have made me question whether NIH continues to be a place where I can freely conduct unbiased science,” he continued. “Specifically, I experienced censorship in ...
In response, Hall wrote to CBS, "I wonder how they define censorship?" Hall said he had reached out to NIH leadership about his concerns in hopes it all was an "aberration" but never received a ...
Kennedy Jr. NIH senior investigator Kevin Hall complained that he "experienced censorship" during his investigation of ultra-processed food addiction. "After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very ...