Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two senate ...

Doctors take an oath to “do no harm.” That sadly doesn’t apply to the Trump administration officials who have thrown ...

Trump has frozen all travel and communications at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the CDC and the ...

Chrystal Starbird, a cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, had been preparing to serve on ...

Dr. Matthew Memoli, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases researcher focused on flu and other respiratory ...

According to agency officials and knowledgeable people, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to freeze external communications, including weekly scientific reports, health ...

The Trump administration’s freeze on communications from U.S. health agencies is leading to another disruption: the abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings. The move covers a swath of health ...

Scientific researchers around the country are concerned after the National Institutes of Health canceled meetings this week with very little explanation. The move comes after federal health officials ...

She will leave the agency Jan. 17, three days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a Jan. 14 NIH statement. In the statement, Dr. Bertagnolli reflected on the ...

For decades, researchers with funding from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have labored quietly in red and blue states across the country, conducting experiments ...

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease that causes high blood sugar. Your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t effectively use the insulin it makes. The hormone insulin moves ...

The CDC estimates that 89% of U.S. adults with diabetes ... According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Black Americans are almost twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as whites.