The Latest Breaking News from NIH

Post-pandemic frustration has spurred House and Senate Republicans to call for changes in how the agency conducts its day-to-day research.

“People are going through three or four trials before they get the right medication,” a public health researcher tells Fortune.

The NIH had been deleting all social media comments containing words like animal, testing, and cruel.

In last week's People for Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Tabak, the D.C. Circuit (in an opinion by Judge Bradley Garcia, joined by Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson and Patricia Millett), held that NIH's automated filtering of comments on Facebook and Instagram pages was unconstitutional. The filtering was supposedly aimed at…

Heated depositions, wellness checks, and strip searches.

Rights groups say the traditional practice that seeks to protect girls from sexual predators is a form of mutilation.

Even if EcoHealth's "basic research" in Wuhan didn't cause the pandemic, it certainly failed in its mission to stop it.

Do mummies contain pathogens that could be transferred to humans today, and should we be worried?

Study suggests multivitamins may not extend life. Consult a doctor before taking them.

Does a person's sex make a difference in how they react to temperature changes? Here's the science.

The Biden administration says its new guidance will make pandemic research safer. Critics say it suffers the same flaws as past, failed gain-of-function regulations.