The email directs NIH employees not to communicate with universities about whether or why their funds have been frozen. The list of affected schools includes Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an email from the NIH Executive Secretariat obtained by STAT, the agency said it was naming Courtney Aklin to run the National Institute of Nursing Research; Alison Cernich to run the National ...

Although the mission of the NIH is to improve human health through research, women have long been understudied. In 1887, when the NIH was founded, the default human clinical research participant ...

As STAT reported last week, the resumption is a sign that the NIH—which has so far in 2025 awarded about $2.8 billion less than usual at this point over the past five years—is beginning to restore the ...

A top nutritionist at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has elected to retire from his post, citing “censorship” under health secretary Robert F Kennedy, Junior’s (RFK Jr) leadership.

About 40% of organizations whose grants the NIH cut in its first month of slashing, which started Feb. 28, are in states Mr. Trump won in November. The Trump administration has singled out Ivy ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution advancing programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. The new rule ...

“When I saw the MAHA movement gaining bipartisan support last year, it was music to my ears,” Hall wrote in a letter late last month to Kennedy and incoming NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

In an interview, Marion Nestle, an emeritus professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, said Hall’s departure from the NIH is a devastating blow to nutrition ...