This high school student traveled to Washington to sound the alarm about the president’s reckless targeting of vital funding.

The Department of Health and Human Services has defended cuts to vaccine research with statements that mislead on the safety ...

After explicitly promising senators during his confirmation hearing that he would not interfere in scientific policy over which Americans should receive which vaccines, Health and Human Services ...

WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today ...

More than 300 NIH employees wrote to their agency's director to decry untenable staff and budget cuts they deem political.

U.S. senators grilled National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jayanta Bhattacharya at a hearing on 10 June about how his ...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sparred over a proposal in the White House budget plan to give more grant recipients their money up front during a Senate Appropriations ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing held on June 10, 2025, Senator Patty Murray scolds Trump's NIH Director Jay ...

During his remarks in a Senate hearing this week, Senator John Kennedy questioned NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. Kennedy asked, "Do you hate medical research?" ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya faced questions from senators during an Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday, as the federal government agency has taken hits to its ...

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, repeatedly pledged during the hour and a half hearing before the Senate ...