"No federally funded research means far fewer research breakthroughs. Far fewer research breakthroughs means far fewer new, effective treatments."

Just days after President Trump imposed broad restrictions on communications, meetings, travel and public appearances at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is clarifying the extent of the freeze’s effect.

For decades now, the National Institutes of health has funded a lot of research on illnesses and vaccines, allowing researchers to run different clinical trials and develop treatments to save millions of lives.

At today's confirmation hearing, Democratic senators were skeptical of the HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that he is now pro-vaccine.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will undergo intense scrutiny over his history of controversial and inflammatory comments at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday to become President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary.

In the week since the new president took office, he’s sparked a decade’s worth of crises. But as RFK Jr. prepares to face the Senate, these four worrying health policy moves, and the chaos they’ve wrought,

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday announced that his committee subpoenaed 14 federal agencies from the exiting Biden-Harris administration in a sweeping investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and U.

SCIENCE: Trudeau Institute, Ampersand Biosciences producing tools for flu research with $1M grant SARANAC LAKE — Local research and biotechnology laboratories Trudeau Institute and Ampersand Biosciences have received a $1 million grant to produce tools aiding the research of the flu.

Joe Exotic says he should receive a pardon from President Donald Trump. "Good for the January Sixers" on their clemency, the "Tiger King" star says, but he thinks he's a more deserving candidate.

A person’s lifetime risk for cancer may begin before they are even born, reports a paradigm-shifting study by Van Andel Institute scientists. The findings, published in Nature Cancer, identified two distinct epigenetic states that arise during development and are linked to cancer risk.

These and other major medical breakthroughs exist in large part thanks to a major division of the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research on the planet.

Trump said he would not feel responsible if anything happened to Fauci as a result of his federal security clearances being cut.