What the beef industry knew about its environmental impact — and how it spent decades blocking climate action.

Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and again

Healthcare journal calls for radical change in approach, urging policymakers to invest in their communities

Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

The state's life sciences industry, which generated $3.3 billion in economic activity in 2023, could be severely impacted by NIH funding cuts.

Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, saying it is threatening to reverse years of progress worldwide.

The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of ‘malice toward the planet’

It's still unclear the total number of grants, dollars and people affected, but the cuts could be a harbinger of what’s to come at other universities.

Promising a return to “fiscally responsible initiatives,” the Agriculture Department ended two Biden-era programs that paid farmers to provide food to schools and low-income families.

In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.

More than one quarter of the staff members at the only two federally run colleges for Native students were cut in February.

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...

University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won't work.

The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.

President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.

President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.

President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.

President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.

Jeff Green is a reporter for Bloomberg News’ Equality team. He covers topics from DEI to the pay gap and CEO misconduct. Rebecca Klar is a reporter for Bloomberg Law's labor team, focused on workplace...

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.

EPA chief Lee Zeldin wants to demolish the bedrock of greenhouse gas regulation. It won’t be easy.

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.

The president said Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, was planning mass layoffs. Agency officials said the cuts would make it impossible to carry out their mission.

The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.

‘Pepe’ Jijón loves his life in the Ecuadorian cloud forest, but for his son Jose, the excitement of New York city calls

The New York Times recently published a 3,000-word investigative report claiming to have found “scores of allegations” against Planned Parenthood for misconduct, medical malpractice, mismanagement and...

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.

Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be signific...

The firings added to doubts about whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the agency’s acting head, supports lifesaving humanitarian assistance, as he has said he does.

Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.

Former CDC Director Tom Frieden warns that cutting the Public Health Associate Program and Laboratory Leadership Service risks public safety, especially given the threat of H5N1.

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

In a February 17 resignation letter, James (Jim) Jones, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, stated that 89 “indiscriminate” firings in the Human Foods Program, including layoffs of employees with...

In a February 17 resignation letter, James (Jim) Jones, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, stated that 89 “indiscriminate” firings in the Human Foods Program, including layoffs of employees with...

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

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.