“It’s not a simple black-and-white issue,” replied Taubenberger, a senior investigator in virology who’s a leading expert on the 1918 flu pandemic and sequenced the virus that caused it. He’s also ...

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In its campaign against “woke” science, the Trump administration has closed down studies and programs focused on the gaps between racial and socioeconomic groups.

Researchers with the National Institutes of Health estimate that 42% of Americans over age 55 will eventually develop ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded 17 companies positions on the third iteration of the potential five-year, $1 billion Public Information and Communication Services, or PICS, contract.

Clinical research conducted at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Md., continues, but recruitment of new patients is on hold.

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Francis Collins has served longer than any other director of the National Institutes of Health since 1971. He tells NPR he did not anticipate the culture wars taking over scientific fact.