Congressional appropriations committees offered a near-total rebuke of President Trump’s proposed downsizing and reshaping of the NIH

A popular and respected scientist is reported to be in line to lead the nation's most important cancer research office.

A new liquid biopsy test from Exact Sciences scans for 50 cancers in one blood sample. The company says it marks a new era in early detection, but there are caveats.

Federal workers send Congress a letter pleading for help, but their trouble attracting signatures reflects fear of retaliation.

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday said ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez was lying about the leadup to her firing.

Three Republican senators joined Democrats in questioning Kennedy’s contradictory statements on mRNA vaccines and Operation Warp Speed.

Last November, in the days following Donald Trump’s election, leaders at the National Institutes of Health began discussing how to prepare for the coming

NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.

The passage of President Trump's signature tax cut bill shows how the health care industry's influence is waning.

The White House unveiled a sweeping plan to try to lower prescription drug prices, one that calls for a "most-favored nation" policy and tighter enforcement of anti-competitive practices.

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

The NIH has scaled back its awards of new grants by at least $2.3 billion since the beginning of the year, a STAT analysis shows.

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge of preventive health care coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act. The ruling could affect millions of Americans.

The CDC was rocked by five high-level departures on Tuesday in the latest turmoil for the nation's top public health agency.

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

Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.

Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.

Former NIH director Francis Collins is so concerned for his personal safety that he has hired security at his home

A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead

Saying that "research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific," the agency wrote to scientists to cancel current grants.

Saying that "research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific," the agency wrote to scientists to cancel current grants.

The Trump administration has started quietly rehiring some FDA employees just days after it fired them.

“We’re going to follow the law, sir,” Governor Janet Mills told Trump.

Disabled workers on a two-year probation were especially vulnerable during the Trump administration's mass firings.

In response to Trump science policies, universities are accepting fewer graduate students than normal and freezing positions, STAT has learned.

In response to Trump science policies, universities are accepting fewer graduate students than normal and freezing positions, STAT has learned.

Dr. Oz's assets range from a tree trimming company to a cattle farm to UnitedHealth stock, and they're worth up to $293 million.

The uncertainty around the spending freeze was an epiphany for some, a realization of how omnipresent government services are

In interview after interview with STAT, those who were fired from federal health and science agencies, along with officials who remain, argued the cuts would be deeply felt.

Four STAT reporters have won the George W. Polk Award for their Health Care's Colossus series on UnitedHealth Group. Read a letter to readers from executive editor Rick Berke.

Sweeping layoffs are set to hit federal health and science agencies, including at the NIH, and former director Monica Bertagnolli called the situation at the NIH “devastating.”

The cuts are part of a purge of 5,200 probationary workers across federal health agencies that started Friday.

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

The National Institutes of Health and some VA regions are scouring existing grants using lists of flagged words, which include not just known trigger

The National Institutes of Health and some VA regions are scouring existing grants using lists of flagged words, which include not just known trigger

The Trump administration's decision to pause enforcement of an anti-bribery law raised the specter that drugmakers could engage in bad behavior as a result.

Drugmakers — major beneficiaries of NIH-backed university research — have been largely silence on the Trump administration's cuts to agency research payments.

The NIH, at a time of deep uncertainty, is losing its longtime No. 2 official, Larry Tabak, to retirement, STAT has learned.

A torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.

Drugmakers — major beneficiaries of NIH-backed university research — have been largely silence on the Trump administration's cuts to agency research payments.

Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead

Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead

Documents analyzed by STAT show that big losers under the NIH's cuts to biomedical research include Stanford, Vanderbilt, Cornell, UT systems.