Hundreds of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a call for action they dubbed the Bethesda Declaration on Monday to push back against cutbacks and changes at the ...

President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” ...

The National Institute of Health, begun by President Franklin Roosevelt in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1940, is now the world’s largest public source of funds for bio-medical research. 171 scientists who ...

Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Updated at 10:26 a.m. on June 9, 2025 Since winning President Donald Trump’s nomination to serve as the director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay ...

NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research Scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda ...

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, a frontal challenge to “policies that undermine ...

Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission. The letter ...

Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency and consequences for human lives, writing in a sharply worded ...

People attend a rally, led by Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, outside the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on May 10, 2025. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images ...

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, a frontal challenge to “policies that undermine ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent,” he said ...