Being physically active is vital to maintaining health and independence as we age, and a new federal campaign for people 50 and older will help them to get active and keep going. Introduced today by ...

At 7 a.m. each weekday, a group of Del Ray seniors meet at Starbucks to embark on a brisk, 45-minute walk. The women return to their starting point for coffee and conversation. Their goal is to stay ...

As the U.S. government shuts down due Congress' failure to pass a spending bill, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is implementing a contingency staffing plan that will again roil a research ...

Congress is now tasked with finalizing the budget ahead of the new fiscal year, which begins October 1. In July, the Senate rejected the White House’s proposed cuts and instead advanced a modest ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The director of the US National Institutes of Health outlined on Friday a “unified strategy” to align the agency’s priorities and funding, a move he said was meant to offer clarification following ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Last week, the National Institutes of Health finally got some good news. A Senate subcommittee voted, with support from both parties, to increase the agency’s ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unveiled its first agency-wide strategic plan to address autoimmune diseases, supporting research on preclinical autoimmunity, early diagnosis, and ...

The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that questioned the Trump administration’s swift cuts to funding. By Benjamin Mueller In the wake of two court rulings taking ...

NIH employees say cuts risk patient health and waste tax dollars Researchers say agency has ignored scientific vetting to "cater to political whims" NIH director faces budget questions at Senate ...

Hundreds of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a call for action they dubbed the Bethesda Declaration on Monday to push back against cutbacks and changes at the biomedical ...

The proposed budget reduces HHS discretionary funding by $31 billion, with a 40% cut for NIH, marking its lowest funding in decades. NIH restructuring consolidates 27 institutes into 8 new entities, ...