Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. The National Institutes of Health has laid off hundreds more staff ...

Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory.

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.

A budget proposal for the US Department of Health and Human Services details extensive cuts to funding for the National Institutes of Health, part of an effort to consolidate the work of its 27 ...

And indeed, the freeze on public communications for all of the Department of Health and Human Services — NIH is part of HHS — has an end date of Feb. 1, according to a memo obtained by NPR.

The change announced Friday by the National Institutes of Health caps the maximum "indirect cost rate" research institutions charge the government at 15% of any given grant.

Democratic AGs sue RFK Jr. over canceled health research States are suing the National Institutes of Health over ending life-saving medical research grants that Trump officials say were "DEI studies." ...

There's widespread confusion and fear among scientists and doctors on the sprawling National Institutes of Health campus and at institutions dependent on the agency's funding.

The National Institutes of Health is the "primary federal agency charged with conducting and supporting medical, health and behavioral research," the Congressional Research Service said in a 2024 ...