"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.

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 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.

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 ...

Biden's decision comes after Donald Trump warned of an enemies list filled with those who've crossed him politically.

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.

In the week since the new president took office, he’s sparked a decade’s worth of crises. But as RFK Jr. prepares to face the Senate, these four worrying health policy moves, and the chaos they’ve wrought,

Fauci, who continues to be a target of ire years after the pandemic ended by Trump ally and billionaire Elon Musk and others, will pay for private security detail. Former President Joe Biden gave Fauci and others a preemptive pardon before leaving office,

At today's confirmation hearing, Democratic senators were skeptical of the HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that he is now pro-vaccine.

The interim leader of the National Institutes of Health gave some clarification tied to Trump administrations restrictions on travel and communications, but questions remain.