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Several members of Congress voiced strong opposition about a reported plan to create a panel of political appointees to sign off on NIH grants

A federal judge halted a Trump administration plan to place a four-year cap on the kinds of visas used by graduate students and postdocs

With clinical success on a personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma, experts are hoping for a more stable future for the technology in other areas.

“Across every cancer we studied, patients are waiting longer today than they were a decade ago.”

Commure wants to automate health care's administrative tasks with AI. An inside look at the messy realities of the startup's ambitious quest.

The Trump administration released its blueprint for U.S. science, calling for shifting hundreds of billions of research dollars from universities to industry.

More than 1 in 8 pregnant women report drinking. Doctors warn fetal alcohol disorders may be more common than many realize, perhaps more common than autism.

Nancy Cox, a CDC veteran who for decades was a global leader in influenza research, has died at 77.

The constant pressure that the heart is under from beating thousands of times a day may create an environment hostile to cancers

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Colorado law banning mental health practitioners from performing conversion therapy

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice.

Deepfake images can mislead viewers, upend elections, and instigate violence. They can also, researchers say, disrupt medical care.

A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

Vaccine critics like to say that pediatricians profit from vaccines. This report found something very different.

The qualified medical experts, the pseudoscientific entertainers, and the MAHA mobilizers leading online health content today.

The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.

Like millions of others who have recovered from Covid-19, I was left with a burning question: Now what?

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In a world first, scientists used CRISPR to fix a baby's unique genetic mutation. The report offers hope for personalized treatments of rare diseases.

The European Commission unveiled a $565 million package to retain and attract scientists, as other countries try to leverage the dismantling of research programs in the U.S.

Fears of landing on a federal list prompts parents, and adults, to cancel autism screening evaluations.

The Trump administration’s remaking of HHS — in a matter of weeks — is sparking basic questions about how parts of the agency and those it oversees can continue to function.

NIH terminated grants for a program studying how to diagnose, treat, and prevent HIV and AIDS in adolescents and young adults.

Kennedy's niece, a NYC physician, shares private emails, says public needs to see what she calls her uncle’s misguided views and conspiracy theories.

The U.S. has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu, in a person from Louisiana who contracted the virus from infected chickens and wild birds in a backyard flock.

The U.S. has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu, in a person from Louisiana who contracted the virus from infected chickens and wild birds in a backyard flock.

The U.S. surgeon general on Friday called for alcoholic beverages to carry labels warning of their connection to cancer, just as cigarettes do.

Trump's staff is laying the groundwork to prepare for a new FDA commissioner and make their mark at the agency.

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has sparked extraordinary public interest in the nation’s health insurance industry. Much of the outcry

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Trans patients and advocates worry politicians could claw back access to life-changing surgeries