The NIH says funding cuts would save it billions of dollars a year. D.C.-area industry and academic leaders say it would cripple R&D.

TURMOIL AT HHS — The past weekend brought a chaotic purge of the federal workforce across the nation’s health agencies, POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn, Megan Messerly and David Lim report.

A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out ...

Grant funding uncertainty has jeopardized the sustainability of research projects and discouraged researchers.

Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary last ...

Long Island researchers and patients are urging the Trump administration to reconsider cuts to NIH research funding.