The Trump administration is scrapping plans for an executive order that would have given the White House greater influence over grant decision-making at the National Institutes of Health. The decision follows pushback from lawmakers, including Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins.
The FDA issued a direct final rule clarifying that non-animal testing methods can be used for drug and biological product safety testing, while HHS announced agency-wide actions to reduce reliance on laboratory animal testing as part of broader efforts to modernize federal biomedical research.
Senator Susan Collins and other members of Congress are pushing back against a White House proposal to create a commission of political appointees to review National Institutes of Health research grants. The plan, pushed by OMB Director Russell Vought, has sparked concerns about politicization of federal biomedical research funding.
Childhood Cancer Canada is urging the federal government to provide $15 million in additional financial support for families with children undergoing cancer treatment, citing increased demand for the foundation's services.
Three dozen health facilities serving more than 400,000 people in Sudan are closing this year due to global aid funding cuts, according to aid groups and medical charity MSF. The closures are pushing Sudan's already fragile healthcare system toward collapse amid more than three years of ongoing war.
UK health innovation minister James Frith has raised concerns about Palantir's work with the NHS, as new figures reveal tens of thousands of patients have withdrawn their data from use in research projects.
The US Department of Health and Human Services released a report connecting 'gender ideology' to leftwing authoritarianism and political violence, which scientists have criticized as poorly conducted research.
The United States is planning to reduce health funding to 18 developing countries by 59% by 2030 through secretive bilateral deals, targeting programs that combat deadly diseases while pushing recipient nations to increase their own health spending.
The Trump administration finalized a rule prohibiting Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program from covering gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors, threatening to pull federal funding from states that continue such coverage.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt after he invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions about his role in the Covid-19 pandemic response.
California's highest court ruled Monday that pharmaceutical manufacturers of drugs deemed safe are not legally obligated to develop safer alternatives, delivering a victory to Gilead Sciences in a closely watched case that could have broad implications for the pharmaceutical industry.
Recent scientific reviews highlight the critical role of selenium metabolism and glutathione-related enzymes, particularly GPX4, in regulating ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of cell death driven by lipid peroxidation with implications for cancer treatment.
The Trump administration has frozen federal funding for New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with HHS Inspector General Thomas March Bell citing insufficient criminal indictments as the reason for the suspension.
Family planning and health organizations in Pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit alleging that a new Trump administration policy could delay or deny federal funding to providers serving tens of thousands of patients across the state.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that funding needed to combat the continent's Ebola outbreak has tripled to $1.4 billion, while the Trump administration simultaneously seeks matching funds from Congress amid concerns over delayed foreign aid spending.
The Office of Management and Budget has proposed rule changes requiring political review of federal scientific grants, while a separate proposal would establish a new science office at the CDC that could give political appointees greater control over agency information and research.
The Trump administration plans to reclassify top NIH positions under Schedule F, making federal workers easier to fire and more politicized. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is spearheading the move.
Federal officials have imposed a Medicaid funding freeze on California and are threatening similar action against other states, representing a significant escalation in federal-state healthcare policy conflicts.
The National Institutes of Health continues to face a significant leadership gap, with 15 of its 27 institutes currently being led by acting directors rather than permanent appointees, months into the administration.
NYU Langone Health has been awarded a nearly $70 million, seven-year renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund its Clinical and Translational Science Institute, supporting efforts to accelerate medical research discoveries.
The federal autism committee met for the first time since HHS Secretary Kennedy fired most scientific experts and replaced them with activists and advocates, focusing on 'profound autism.'
A new study found that fewer than half of papers published by NIH-funded researchers analyze or report their data by sex, despite a 2016 NIH policy requiring scientists to consider sex as a biological variable. The gap persists a decade after the policy was implemented.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued new guidance implementing limits on federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for certain noncitizen populations, representing a significant policy shift in immigrant healthcare coverage.
A provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make an estimated 100,000 lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible for Medicare coverage, ending benefits for individuals who paid into the system for years.
WHO marked the 78th anniversary of its founding on April 7 by launching World Health Day 2026 with a global campaign calling for renewed commitment to collaboration and science as foundations for better health worldwide.
Trump administration's 2027 budget proposal calls for cutting $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health and consolidating the number of institutes and centers from 27 to 22, though Congress is unlikely to approve the cuts.
A survey of NIH-funded scientists found that 25% reported their research had been impacted a great deal or a fair amount by new restrictions on foreign research partnerships and subawards, disrupting global scientific collaboration.
