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PURPOSE Social support is associated with improved outcomes for people with chronic pain and is an important but understudied component of biopsychosocial pain care. We sought to explore how group med...

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

NIH staff are now charged with reviewing both new and existing grant applications for “misalignment” with “agency priorities” and enforcing changes when this is the case. This process has been called ...

Overview: Indigenous scholars led by Lydia Jennings have developed new guidelines to help ensure Indigenous peoples’ rights, knowledge and data sovereignty are respected in scientific research and sch...

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

Introduction The United States faces persistent perinatal health care inequities, and there is growing recognition that midwifery care, including community-based care offered outside of hospital set...

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

Introduction The United States is a global anomaly in its lack of postpartum care. Community midwives’ scope of practice generally includes maternal and infant care until 6 weeks after birth, althou...

The federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is continuing its pernicious quest to eviscerate the heart of public health and scientific practice. It just published a Proposed Federal Financial As...

Steven E. Kahn, Cheryl A.M. Anderson, John B. Buse, Elizabeth Selvin, Vanita R. Aroda, Seth A. Berkowitz, Matthew J. Crowley, Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, Meg

Stand up for Science

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

On September 26, 2023, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

Some days the theory of productivity works and you focus and write your papers. Other days it doesn't work. If you are a menstruating woman

The likelihood of snagging NIH grants has plunged to historic lows, forcing academic researchers to resort to a variety of tactics to try to obtain funding

Medical Schools Have an Obligation to Push Back Against Federal Pressure

The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

The NIH Data Book page reporting Research Project Grants (RPG) and Fellowship awards by race has been updated for FY2025. Completely unsurprisingly, despite the impression that may have been convey…

The family’s lawyers plan to appeal the judge’s decision to deport the family to Ecuador.

HOME: Honoring Origins of Mindfulness. In this video series, you’ll learn brief, 5–20 minute, culturally rooted mind-body practices from trusted Cantonese La...

California and a coalition of 16 state Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education campuses to collect data showing they aren'...

Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

En esta serie de videos, aprenderás prácticas mente-cuerpo breves, de 5 a 20 minutos y con raíces culturales, guiadas por voces chino-estadounidenses y latin...

The Senate HELP Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means to serve as U.S. Surgeon General on Wednesday, February 25th. While we were hoping this nomination was dead, i...

The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

Pretti was one of us. We have to carry on his struggle.

Today, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Democracy Defenders Fund, and Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller filed a motion to intervene in EEOC v. The University of Pennsylvania on behalf of five organ...

Care, unlike terror, is a renewable resource

Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a podcaster that DEI-related grants restored under a court order won't be renewed in 2026