The NIH continued reducing grants involving health disparities, race, and ethnicity but made little progress toward other administration priorities in the 2026 fiscal year.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

At least 13 papers — including The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and The Kansas City Star — lost reporters

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.

The proposed land swap would allow easy access to the crown jewel of the national park system. Democrats and former Park Service officials are incensed.

Oxford researchers call shingles shot first vaccine protecting both heart and brain. Lower heart disease risk follows study showing reduced dementia risk.

Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.

The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

CR doesn't recommend e-scooters because of their high speeds and rising injury rates. Two of CR's testers sustained injuries while evaluating e-scooters, too.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.

With cancellation of health disparities project, agency may be testing new way to legally kill politically sensitive grants

The Trump administration released its blueprint for U.S. science, calling for shifting hundreds of billions of research dollars from universities to industry.

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

Move comes amid growing outbreak in Texas and after two-month halt on mandatory shots

Demand for alcohol is declining. The industry is fighting harder and more creatively than ever against limits — and winning.

Researchers have created what they say may count as the first synthetic cell, and have started a public benefit corporation to share the technology with

RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz's harsh new rules "punish those who cannot fend for themselves,” Democratic officials argue.

The layoffs this week impact the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey School of Business and the university’s general administration.

The use of genome editing in early embryos has pulled back the curtain on the role of one of the key genes that orchestrates the first stages of human development, researchers reported.

Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

Federal health officials aim to speed up drug development and better compete with China.

The Bundibugyo virus only emerged twice before. Now, scientists see a chance to get to know it better

A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.

The administration is expected to finalize the proposed changes as soon as this summer.

As black-market drugs go mainstream and legalization is within reach, entrepreneurs, investors and healthcare players are racing to cash in.

The director-general of the World Health Organization is profoundly worried about the Ebola outbreak in the DRC, he told STAT in an interview.

The president’s first-term pledge to end HIV in the U.S. by 2030 has evaporated in his second term.

None of STAT's requests for Kennedy's schedule have been completed, and some haven't even been acknowledged.

In a report published on the first anniversary of the Bethesda Declaration, 71 staffers write that they feel NIH leadership “largely ignored" their concerns

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...

A government-commissioned study had been meant to inform new dietary guidelines, and found risks associated with even light drinking.

The condemnations keep coming after five diabetes experts were escorted out of an ADA meeting for handing out copies of an editorial criticizing federal research cuts.

The NIH has appointed researcher John Powers III to lead its infectious disease institute on an acting basis, after weeks of being in leadership limbo.