Andrea Geller loved her job in the mailroom at NIH. But after she was laid off, she's struggling to find a job accommodating ...

In a report commissioned by President Joe Biden’s administration and declassified five days after Trump’s inauguration, the Central Intelligence Agency changed its position to say that a lab leak was ...

Over the past several decades, concerns about costs and producing short-term results have narrowed the NIH’s impact.

The federal government is full of scientists who lend their expertise to key decisions about our food, medicines, environment ...

Jenna Norton, who works at the NIH as a researcher, poses for a photograph during an interview with the Associated Press in Bethesda, Md., Friday, June 6, 2025. Credit: AP/Jose Luis Magana ...

The NIH’s controversial in-house Clinical Center on its Bethesda, Md., campus had been accused of pushing pneumonia-causing bacteria into 2,000 beagles’ lungs, among other brutal experiments.

More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.

The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

The NIH staffers further blasted the canceling of nearly completed studies. “Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million,” they wrote.

On Monday, scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled The Bethesda Declaration, challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public ...