BACKGROUND: Discrimination in health care can influence patient behavior and potentially lead to poor quality care. When patients perceive discrimination, they may disengage from health care, have hei...

Not with a bang but with a whimper

Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.

The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH

NIH prohibited the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.

ALT: a cookie monster says " so share it maybe "

A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

Frustrated that there seemed to be no large-scale pro-science movement coalescing, a graduate student took matters into her own hands

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

Introducing "The People's Project."

ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .

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

The latest signal that the future of the university is under threat

The NIH policy would lower indirect funding in research to 15 percent, decreasing from the University's 55 percent cap.

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