Just in time for the Fall 2026 semester, I am excited to share that my first R package is on CRAN! "brfssdata: Access CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data" BRFSS is one of the largest...

Research on health differences by social class and economic status dates back to the mid-19th century.1 Early European publications examined differences in health by social class; then, during the nex...

The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Nearly halfway into the 2026 fiscal year, the NIH is far behind on grant spending, new data show

Watch the full performance from 98th Oscars.

Many programs may be pushed into the next fiscal year, and some could face funding gaps

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

AHRQ advances excellence in healthcare by producing evidence to make healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable.

Interview with Katherine Majzoub Morgan, MD, MPP, author of Primary Care Clinicians Available for New Patient Visits, and Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, author of A Different Lens on the Primary Care Workforce Shortage—Who Is Accepting New Patients? Hosted by Eve Rittenberg, MD.

A Trump administration change to how NIH awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding.

The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

plumber2, a complete rewrite of plumber, has landed on CRAN, providing a modern, future proof solution for creating web servers in R. Read all about the new features here.