About $1.6 billion has been invested in research that has yielded little progress, disappointing many who suffer with the ...

While the National Institutes of Health — which gets $48 billion annually for biomedical research — enjoys bipartisan support ...

The NIH’s current system for funding scientific research perpetuates health disparities by privileging established, well-resourced institutions and reinforcing an individual-level focus on disease ...

The Standard & Poor’s Biotechnology Select Industry Index (XBI), one measure of the health of the life sciences industry, ...

National Institutes of Health officials launched an internal review on rebuilding trust with people in the United States as ...

Federal health scientists voice concern over an anticipated takeover by medical skeptics in Trump’s second administration ...

The Physicians Committee—and 27 other organizations—are calling on Congress to reject funding for harmful primate experiments ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that obesity was prevalent in more than 40 percent in ...

Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and ...

President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus ...

H istorically, medical research has been male-dominated in terms of subjects as well as researchers, even though women make up half of the world’s population. As a result of this gender bias, insights ...