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NIH budget cuts are threatening key medical research programs, shrinking training grants, and leaving young researchers ...
Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the U.S., and 90% of patients are Black, according to NIH.
A line from Trump’s speech to Congress had ripple effects on health research funding for everything from HIV to asthma to ...
For decades, international researchers have received a small slice of the National Institutes of Health budget. In 2024, out ...
Last month, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came to Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge to watch Gov. Jeff Landry ...
Sustainable change requires improved study design, market incentives, and patient involvement, write Kate Womersley and colleagues For too long, medical research has defaulted to male physiology, ...
Milo Taylor, a postbaccalaureate fellow at the NIH, is studying how immune cells recognize and fight infections. Her research ...
During a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing held on May 14, 2025, Senator Ed Markey harshly ...
Federal study on Black babies born prematurely in Detroit, focused on DEI, abruptly terminated by NIH, sparking concerns ...
A doctor says she’s scrambling to figure out how she’ll continue her work helping sickle cell disease patients after the ...
Recent decisions by the National Institutes of Health to cancel research projects focused on Black infant mortality highlight ...
A researcher at Duke University, speaks out after her NIH grant for sickle cell research was terminated. The $750,000 funding ...