The NIH’s controversial in-house Clinical Center on its Bethesda, Md., campus had been accused of pushing pneumonia-causing bacteria into 2,000 beagles’ lungs, among other brutal experiments.

NIH grant terminations have led to $1.81 billion in funding cuts, affecting major research institutions and exacerbating health disparities. The National Institute of Mental Health and the ...

In early May 2025, claims (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration shut down a National Institutes of Health laboratory accused of killing beagles in the name of ...

The email directs NIH employees not to communicate with universities about whether or why their funds have been frozen. The list of affected schools includes Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

If colleges and universities want to receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), they’ll have to certify that they don’t operate any diversity, equity, inclusion or accessibility ...

Although the mission of the NIH is to improve human health through research, women have long been understudied. In 1887, when the NIH was founded, the default human clinical research participant ...

Kevin Hall, a top nutrition researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said he is retiring early, claiming his work was censored after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm of the ...

“The idea of the platform is that the existing data resources are often fragmented and difficult to obtain,” Bhattacharya told a panel of NIH advisers in his presentation on Tuesday.

Sweeping changes to federal funding for scientific research, which include medical and public health research, have impacted the National Institute of Health (NIH) funding. As of the most recent ...

A total of 694 NIH grants were terminated across 24 of the 26 institutes and centers that administered active NIH grants between February 28 and April 8, 2025. HealthDay News — Targeted grant ...

In an email from the NIH Executive Secretariat obtained by STAT, the agency said it was naming Courtney Aklin to run the National Institute of Nursing Research; Alison Cernich to run the National ...