In President Donald Trump’s second term, federal data shows, the National Institutes of Health has lost about 4,400 workers.

NIH is looking to get as many as one million participants in a survey for whole genome sequencing to study and conduct ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The last time Jay Bhattacharya testified before Congress, in early ...

HHS has made reducing animal testing a priority over the past year. In April 2025, the FDA announced it would phase out the animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies. A few months later, ...

A close-up of the administration building at National Institutes of Health. (NIH photo) Adele Merritt has been named the top IT official for the National Institutes of Health, giving the agency a ...

The National Institutes of Health received a small appropriations bump for fiscal year 2026, but concerns beyond spending levels abound ...

New federal policies have created a temporary drop in new NIH awards that is challenging America’s biomedical research community.

WASHINGTON — A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for the National Institutes of Health to implement a unified, agencywide ...

Director Jay Bhattacharya will testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning on oversight of the research agency. The Trump ...

Earlier this month, a Trump administration plan to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by more than 40% was leaked to the press. The preliminary budget sent shockwaves through the nation's ...

To Counter China, America’s Military AI Needs an Open-Source Reboot Sunset for Regulations, Sunrise for Opportunity The agency is driven by activity, not results, and wastes money on pointless and ...

Medical research brain drain: Why scientists could flee the U.S. The Trump administration's staff reductions and cuts to research funding could potentially cause young scientists to leave the U.S. in ...