Dr. Varmus is a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine. He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of cancer ...

Many experts fear Kennedy will appoint vaccine skeptics to key roles in federal agencies and hinder infectious disease research.

Kennedy managed to allay the concerns of several key GOP senators over his anti-vaccine activism. Mitch McConnell was the ...

Two key staff members at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are reportedly leaving the agency amid ongoing efforts by ...

After the National Institutes of Health issued an order Friday night that would dramatically reduce funding, professor ...

Efforts by the Trump administration to drastically cut federal investments in medical research are threatening to kneecap ...

In this week's InnovationRx newsletter, federal judges halt Trump's cuts to NIH research payments, rural hospitals' ongoing ...

Trump’s pick for HHS secretary has his sights on halting infectious disease research.

While a federal judge has paused the funding cuts, the uncertainty has researchers concerned about the future of scientific ...

Vaccines and infection-acquired immunity reduce infection risk to close contacts through ‘indirect protection’. Here, the authors characterise the strength and durability of vaccine- and ...

Feb. 5, 2025 — Researchers report that all nine patients in a clinical trial being treated for stage III or IV clear cell renal cell carcinoma (a form of kidney cancer), generated a successful ...

He said that he instead supports vaccinations and will follow the science in overseeing the $1.7 trillion Department of Health and Human Services, which, among other duties, oversees vaccine research, ...