The National Institutes of Health funds research, but some scientists fear that funding may be pulled or paused by the Trump administration.

Trump has frozen all travel and communications at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the CDC and the National Institutes of Health

One of the most admired research agencies in the world, the US National Institutes of Health, now has a huge target on its back. How did an organisation supported by both Democrat and Republican politicians become so vulnerable?

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, announced that she will step down Friday, 14 months after she took the position on Nov. 9, 2023.

In a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, RFK Jr. diagnosed a nation’s health ills but fails to diagnose remedies.

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

Federal grants "are investments," a veteran researcher explains, and cutting them will endanger people's lives here and elsewhere.

Senators pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his past vaccine and abortion remarks in the first of two days of hearings before senators vote on whether to confirm him as President Trump’s health secretary.

Data: National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health; Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Some states have far more to lose than others if the second Trump administration cuts federal health and science funding.

Fifty-one percent oppose Kennedy's nomination to head up the Department of Health and Human Services, a new poll has found.

If he is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take over a sprawling bureaucracy with an annual budget that tops $1.7 trillion, with more than 80,000 employees and 13 divisions.

Kennedy Jr.'s statements before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday revealed a concerning lack of knowledge about the major health programs he'd oversee, should he be confirmed as HHS secretary.