"No federally funded research means far fewer research breakthroughs. Far fewer research breakthroughs means far fewer new, effective treatments."

Just days after President Trump imposed broad restrictions on communications, meetings, travel and public appearances at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is clarifying the extent of the freeze’s effect.

For decades now, the National Institutes of health has funded a lot of research on illnesses and vaccines, allowing researchers to run different clinical trials and develop treatments to save millions of lives.

The National Institutes of Health had funded protection for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

SCIENCE: Trudeau Institute, Ampersand Biosciences producing tools for flu research with $1M grant SARANAC LAKE — Local research and biotechnology laboratories Trudeau Institute and Ampersand Biosciences have received a $1 million grant to produce tools aiding the research of the flu.

The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”

Trump and public health official regularly clashed during height of Covid pandemic and he has talked about facing death threats

Trump said he would not feel responsible if anything happened to Fauci as a result of his federal security clearances being cut.

The physical and mental health of any nation depends on the trust of its people in the institutions created to protect them. It depends on the quality of the officials who lead and staff these institutions. It depends on the rigor and experience of its researchers, technicians, and healthcare professionals.

A person’s lifetime risk for cancer may begin before they are even born, reports a paradigm-shifting study by Van Andel Institute scientists. The findings, published in Nature Cancer, identified two distinct epigenetic states that arise during development and are linked to cancer risk.

These and other major medical breakthroughs exist in large part thanks to a major division of the National Institutes of Health ... with funding from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have labored quietly in red and blue ...

The Trump administration has appointed Matthew Memoli, a veteran researcher who was critical of the U.S. response to the Covid pandemic, as acting head of the NIH.