Sue Sheridan’s baby boy, Cal, suffered brain damage from undetected jaundice in 1995. Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t ...

Beyer is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. As a pediatrician and a scientist-in-training, I conduct research on a critical question ...

NIH grant funding in both dollars spent and projects funded has increased overall since 2013. But the portion of funding for research on women’s health has shrunk nearly every year since then, ...

The plan aims to make mental health research more local and more "accessible and effective".

This story was originally published by The 19th on March 27, 2025. Daniella Fodera got an unusually early morning call from her research adviser this month: The doctoral student’s fellowship at ...

Scientists, faculty and staff at Emory University received an alarming email Saturday: An announcement of funding caps from the National Institutes of Health meant scientists and their labs at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Geri Stengel writes about the success factors of women entrepreneurs. The gender gap in healthcare isn’t just a question of equity ...

First came emails. Then a flurry of phone calls and emergency meetings. For many doctors, scientists, and other researchers, the news that their funding was being cut didn’t feel real. Over the past ...

For more than seven decades, Princeton and other leading research universities have played an integral role in building and strengthening America’s research system into the envy of the world — a ...

The nation’s LGBTQ research field is collapsing. In recent weeks, academics who focus on improving the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans have been subjected to waves of ...

BOSTON — In a major victory for public health, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts today struck down the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) directives that led to the ...