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This high school student traveled to Washington to sound the alarm about the president’s reckless targeting of vital funding.
After explicitly promising senators during his confirmation hearing that he would not interfere in scientific policy over which Americans should receive which vaccines, Health and Human Services ...
Collins told Bhattacharya to talk with Kelvin K. Droegemeier, who worked as President Donald Trump’s science adviser during ...
Rep. Tom Cole shares insights on the FY '26 appropriations process -- what's holding it up and the potential impact of ...
WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today ...
More than 300 NIH employees wrote to their agency's director to decry untenable staff and budget cuts they deem political.
U.S. senators grilled National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jayanta Bhattacharya at a hearing on 10 June about how his ...
In a cable sent Tuesday and obtained by The Guardian, the State Department said it will “assume responsibility for foreign assistance programming previously undertaken by USAID” starting June 15. Plus ...
During his remarks in a Senate hearing this week, Senator John Kennedy questioned NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. Kennedy asked, "Do you hate medical research?" ...
During her remarks in a Senate hearing today, Senator Patty Murray grilled NIH director Jay Bhattacharya over the Trump Administration's budget cuts.
In a written response shared with the AP, Bhattacharya defended the agency’s direction, insisting the letter “has some ...
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, repeatedly pledged during the hour and a half hearing before the Senate ...