National Institutes of Health Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., spent much of a Senate committee hearing dancing around direct answers—except when it came to vaccines, a topic in which he ...

Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra decried the Trump administration’s “skinny budget” request unveiled Friday, lambasting it as not a budget proposal but a “demolition ...

The lawsuit’s outcome could have major implications for millions of Americans, especially after Congress voted in 2025 to slash state Medicaid funding, a major source of care for people with ...

With the future of her cancer treatment in limbo, Natalie Phelps doesn’t know how much longer she can wait. Last month, after months of seeking treatment options for her colorectal cancer, the 43-year ...

President Trump’s “skinny budget” request for fiscal year 2026 includes massive cuts to federal health agencies, including a quarter of the Department of Health and Human Services’(HHS) discretionary ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to end future funding for research ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has unveiled a revolutionary initiative aimed at reshaping ...

Funding increase a "vast improvement" over cuts proposed by President Trump, one group say ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to completely end cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded experiments on primates. It was the second such pledge he has made, first in August 2025, when, in direct ...

Update: On 30 June, the NIH instructed staff to cease renegotiating the scope of research projects to align with the agency’s new priorities. But the instructions apply only to projects conducted at ...