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Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya faced questions from senators during an Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday, as the federal government agency has taken hits to its s…

Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

New agency head also says some laid off employees may be recalled, including to help address supply shortages at labs and medical centers.

Trump administration proposal is seen as a way to make NIH institute and center directors political appointees.

A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for terminating some funding for research, firing thousands of federal workers and removing certain sci...

The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Gran...

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Researchers calculated that $1.8 billion in National Institutes of Health grants were terminated in just over one month

Francis Collins: The Trump administration is “basically taking ‘move fast and break things’ and applying it to our nation’s medical research enterprise."

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President Trump's new NIH director took questions from Medical College of Wisconsin researchers, including one whose research grant had been canceled.

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Universities whose NIH funding has been frozen may face further strain as the agency holds off awarding new grants to at least a half dozen of them, according to an internal email.

Pain is the most costly chronic health problem in the U.S. In latest RIFs at NIH, an entire division devoted to pain research was closed down.

Recent news reports of at least seven alleged cases have alarmed advocates and scholars who say they reveal the dangers of a system accelerating with few safeguards.