NIH, policy

At appropriations subcommittee hearings, President Trump’s budget proposal gets dissed by Republicans and Democrats.

Congress is not expected to fully enact the proposed cuts to research and public health programs.

Heads of academia and industry mingled with the vice president and the secretary of Health and Human Services at a biotech summit.

The proposed spending plan for 2017 includes money for Alzheimer’s and cancer research.

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).

Experts discuss how Trump’s budget proposals could affect federally employed and federally funded scientists.

US scientists continue to have a hard time getting funding to study the health impacts of the drug. But cannabis research in Canada—where medical marijuana is legal nationwide—is different story.

The US National Institutes of Health would receive a $2 billion increase if the 2016 spending bill makes it through Congress unchanged.

Scientists who evaluate National Institutes of Health grant applications often identify the projects that will have the biggest scientific impact, according to an analysis.

The US legislature passed a spending agreement for next year, and the deal has only modest increases for federal science agencies.

After a string of incidents leading to lab closures and a moratorium on the transfer of select agents, US labs are reassessing safety threats within their own walls.

Researchers welcome a new ruling saying that financial holdings will no longer need to be published in an online database.

Experts in Washington have reached an agreement over how to fund avian influenza research.

The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.

Many Americans who are likely to vote in upcoming elections are not in favor of across-the-board cuts to non-discretionary funding.

If Congress can't reach an agreement on reducing the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion, automatic decreases to key federal science agency budgets go into effect.

As federal budgets tighten, the US government is getting serious about enforcing reporting and administrative rules that accompany academic grants.

As nonconventional medical treatments become increasingly mainstream, we take a look at the science behind some of the most popular.

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Barack Obama's health care reform law contains key provisions that will impact US science funding in the years to come.

An advisory committee urges the federal funding agency to take steps to counter racial bias in the granting process.