The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected the Trump administration’s massive proposed funding cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), advancing a measure that would increase the ...

Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Senate panel rejects Trump budget health cuts The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday ...

Around 1,000 people gathered in Bethesda Saturday to express their frustration and fear over possible cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and research at the National Institutes of Health headquarters.

The National Institutes of Health has laid off hundreds more staff, multiple current and laid-off employees of the health agency told CBS News, including at its cancer research institute.

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has since fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants.

Distrust of science is fueling such misguided proposals as scaling back critical public-health agencies.