The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding ...

For fiscal year 2023, NIH spent more than $35 billion in about 50,000 grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than ...

Philadelphia doctors are expressing concern after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed and sworn in as health secretary.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) has been confirmed by the Senate as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this ...

RFK Jr. will become Trump's health secretary, after winning over some GOP senators wary of his anti-vaccine views.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, voting to approve ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins confirmation to be President Trump's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The vote was 52 to 48.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a vaccine critic and the newly-appointed US health secretary, thanked "MAHA moms" before senators voted ...

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

Kennedy has expressed support for some fields, but has also declared he’d like a ‘break’ in infectious-disease research.

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