“A vial doesn’t need a missile to become a weapon,” writes Ashish Jha.

More than half of the NIH's institutes and centers don’t have permanent directors, giving the Trump administration an unusual opportunity to reshape the agency. The latest departure came on Friday.

The Trump Administration is reversing its deep staffing cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, reinstating hundreds of employees.

The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) meetings used to be a geek’s dream: hours of long, maybe dreary presentation of extensive data

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal. Why is the additive, safely used since the 1930s, being questioned again?

After paying billions, company seeks state laws and US Supreme Court ruling barring such cases

Francis Collins, MD, PhD, lauds lifesaving research supported by the National Institutes of Health, explains why he left, and warns of scientific brain drain.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV. In two groundbreaking studies, Gilead Sciences’ shot, a drug named lenacapavir, nearly eliminated new i...

The American Society for Microbiology is committed to ensuring that scientific research is conducted adhering to strict standards for biosafety and biosecurity.

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. Here's what it means.

Funding cuts are having a devastating toll on researchers' careers and threatening future innovation in the U.S. Their request: bring science-based decisions back.

Speaking to a judicial conference, the Supreme Court justice said attacks were designed to intimidate and influence.

A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term.

Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves