On Friday, the NIH released an RFI (request for Information) on a proposed new format for reporting the scores of grant ...

Political appointees of U.S. President Donald Trump have reportedly been “flagging and freezing policy-focused grant applications” to the National Institutes of Health.

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In January, Kennedy’s ACIP moved to further alter the childhood vaccine schedule in a manner similar to Trump’s latest executive order. Those changes were stayed by a federal judge following a suit by ...

Trump recently signs an executive order calling for a reduction in the childhood vaccine schedule from the current 17 vaccines to 11. It also calls for breaking up the MMR (mumps, measles, and rubell ...

From genome editing to quantum computing, scientific progress is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, yet public faith in ...