FEMA official Robert Fenton and a deputy are charged with increasing access to tests, vaccines, and treatment.

A review of more than two decades of data finds racial disparities in the success rate of National Science Foundation grant proposals.

The Biden administration plans to elevate the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to its own division in a bid to improve the response to current and future public health emergencies, The Washington Post reports.

A new presidential memorandum requires the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate a government-wide push to generate a research action plan for the condition.

A narrow Senate vote ends a 13-month period during which the agency has lacked a permanent commissioner.

In a win for the US Department of Justice’s China Initiative, Charles Lieber was convicted of hiding his financial ties to China from federal agencies.

The glycoprotein researcher and longtime principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health will take over from Francis Collins on December 20.

The sponsors of upwards of 1,000 clinical trials may be forced to publish data that have gone unpublished over a 10-year period.

Federal science agencies vary in their requirements. Here’s how researchers can follow the rules.

The president’s request for next year’s federal budget includes a 7 percent drop in funding for the National Institutes of Health and reductions for other science agencies.

A reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 won’t punish oil and gas companies whose activities kill birds unintentionally, The New York Times reports.

A working group has put forth suggestions for cracking down on misconduct, such as requiring grant applicants to disclose sexual harassment findings.

The country’s new government appears to have heard the call from academics for an independent body to distribute federal research funds.

Two panels devoted to reviewing/recommending policy on marine protected areas and invasive species were eliminated.

The National Labor Relations Board has gone back-and-forth on whether graduate students at private universities can form unions three times in the past 19 years.

The federal government cautions that the drug can affect brain development in both teens and fetuses.

The Duke University emeritus professor was an expert in purine biosynthesis and the genetics of gout.

The president wants to terminate at least a third of all federal advisory committees by the end of September.

More turnover in the agency’s intramural program could boost diversity among laboratory leadership.