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Opinion: Token Pharmacovigilance
Peter Doshi | May 23, 2017 | 3 min read
A US government website for collecting reports of side effects associated with vaccines is broken. Why has no one noticed?
Science Advocates Frustrated by President’s Budget
Kerry Grens | May 23, 2017 | 3 min read
Congress is not expected to fully enact the proposed cuts to research and public health programs.
NIH Leaders Appeal to Congress for Funding
Aggie Mika | May 17, 2017 | 2 min read
Directors of several institutes testified against proposed 2018 budget cuts.    
Life Science Leaders Meet at White House
Kerry Grens | May 8, 2017 | 1 min read
Heads of academia and industry mingled with the vice president and the secretary of Health and Human Services at a biotech summit.
Preclinical Studies Don't Regularly Adhere to Best Practices
Kerry Grens | May 8, 2017 | 4 min read
Animal experiments published in a handful of cardiovascular journals mostly ignore NIH guidelines.
Individual Investigators to Have Limit on NIH Funds
Bob Grant | May 3, 2017 | 2 min read
A point system seeks to ensure that funding is spread more evenly among researchers, especially early- and mid-career scientists.
Congress Agrees to Give NIH $2 Billion Extra
Kerry Grens | May 1, 2017 | 1 min read
The proposed spending plan for 2017 includes money for Alzheimer’s and cancer research.
PubMed-Indexed Abstracts to Include COI Statements
Tracy Vence | Apr 19, 2017 | 1 min read
Expressions of concern will also be linked in study summaries. 
Trump Meets with HHS, NIH Brass
Bob Grant | Apr 5, 2017 | 1 min read
President Donald Trump, HHS Secretary Tom Price, and NIH Director Francis Collins discussed the opioid crisis and retaining young researchers in the biomedical research enterprise, among other things, according to a White House official.
Image of the Day: Works In Progress
The Scientist | Apr 4, 2017 | 1 min read
An NIH survey of 351 individuals in the research community has shown that many are supportive of interim research products like preprints.
Proposed NIH Cuts Hit Bipartisan Opposition in Congress
Diana Kwon | Apr 4, 2017 | 2 min read
Both Democrats and Republications criticize the Trump administration’s plan to cut funding for biomedical research.
The Invention Return on NIH Investments
Kerry Grens | Apr 2, 2017 | 1 min read
Around 8 percent of grants funded by the National Institutes of Health resulted in patents.
Tom Price Defends the Trump Administration’s Proposed Cuts at NIH
Diana Kwon | Mar 30, 2017 | 2 min read
The secretary of Health and Human Services argued that the biomedical research-supporting agency’s budget includes unnecessary expenses. 
NIH: Grant Applicants Can Cite Preprints
Tracy Vence | Mar 27, 2017 | 2 min read
In an agency first, the National Institutes of Health provides guidance on citing certain non-peer-reviewed publications in agency proposals and reports.
What Budget Cuts Might Mean for US Science
Diana Kwon | Mar 21, 2017 | 5 min read
A look at the historical effects of downsized research funding suggests that the Trump administration’s proposed budget could hit early-career scientists the hardest.  
Science Advocates Decry Trump’s Proposed Budget
Bob Grant | Mar 16, 2017 | 2 min read
Officials at scientific societies and advocacy organizations urge lawmakers to push back against proposed cuts at the NIH and other agencies.
Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut Science Funding
Tracy Vence | Mar 16, 2017 | 2 min read
The NIH could see its budget slashed by $5.8 billion (approximately 19 percent), while the EPA could see a $2.6 billion budget cut (around 31 percent).
Reactions to Proposed EPA, NIH Budget Cuts
Tracy Vence | Mar 3, 2017 | 2 min read
Experts discuss how Trump’s budget proposals could affect federally employed and federally funded scientists.
Trump’s Budget May Cut Science Funding
Bob Grant | Feb 28, 2017 | 1 min read
The president’s 2018 budget request tips the scales in favor of military spending and away from civilian funding agencies, such as the NIH and NSF.
US Researchers Found Guilty of Misconduct Collectively Awarded $101 Million
Joshua A. Krisch | Feb 26, 2017 | 1 min read
Seventeen scientists found to have committed research misconduct during the last 25 years have since collectively received more than $101 million in NIH funding.
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