A new survey of 4,000 academics looked at the effects of state laws barring “divisive concepts” and federal grant cuts.

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

The move is an escalation in the agency’s clash with the medical group, which is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.

2025 Federal Government Shutdown As of 12 AM ET on October 1, 2025, the federal government has shut down due to lack of an agreement for funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. Some federal services and fu...

Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.

Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

The Trump administration has been shedding scientific expertise and patient perspectives in the name of slimming down the federal government.

When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

ACIP develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to control disease in the United States.

Learn causes, rates, prevention, treatment, clinical features and more about perinatal hepatitis B.