Kennedy Jr., a vocal vaccine skeptic and activist lawyer, was confirmed Thursday as the nation's new health secretary. The Senate voted largely along party lines to put Kennedy at the helm of the $1.7 trillion U.

What’s the best way to care for a new mom dealing with high blood pressure and risk to her heart? How can people stem the tide of opioid abuse in rural Massachusetts? Both are questions that doctors at Baystate Health are working to answer with the help of funding from the National Institutes of Health.

The No. 2 in command at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, who served as acting director of the agency during the COVID-19 pandemic, has abruptly resigned.

The memo, penned by NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael Lauer and NIH Chief Grants Officer Michelle Bulls, informed the agency’s grants management officers that their programs “fall under recently issued Temporary Restraining Orders” issued by the U.

The University of Louisville will pause hiring due to concerns about how a new NIH funding policy will impact the university's budget.

Susan Collins could leverage her position to push back against NIH cuts she opposes. At least for now, the Republican senator is choosing not to.

Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a “hero of the planet” for his pioneering work to clean up America’s waterways. On February 14 of this year, his second day as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services,

A decade ago this past June, my sister died at the National Institutes of Health. I still have faith in them, and I hope that the country does, too,” writes Ariel Reinish.

The Trump administration will reportedly fire thousands of federal employees working in public health and science agencies on Friday as part of its effort to shrink the size of government. The latest cuts will affect about 5,

Proposed cuts by the Trump administration to a type of federal funding from the National Institutes of Health would pose a credit challenge to universities that receive the funds, analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

A research team led by the UCLA School of Dentistry has been awarded a $20.6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish