In mid-2025, rumors spread online about the potential closure of the national campaign "Safe to Sleep," which educated ...

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee highlighted this week the harms of potential Trump administration cuts to the ...

“The NIH decision to restrict access to key genomic and medical datasets hinders global cooperation at a time when coordinated action is needed”, said Anjee Davis (Fight Colorectal Cancer, Springfield ...

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 ...

Read a detailed updated story here. On April 22, 2025, CBS News reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to launch a "disease registry" to track Americans with autism as part ...

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 ...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Monday asked the National Archives and Records Administration to investigate the Trump administration for using self-deleting third-party messaging apps to conduct ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...