Tag: NIH

‘We’re looking at that whole situation’: Trump floats government coverage for uninsured coronavirus patients

Cassidy Morrison · March 3, 2020 10:15 pm

NIH releases footage of ‘horrific’ taxpayer-funded primate experiments after lawsuit

Carlin Becker · February 25, 2020 11:17 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, an American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

‘New Red Scare’: House Democrats scrutinize FBI investigations into ethnically Chinese scientists

Caitlin Yilek · February 20, 2020 10:40 pm

President Trump is expected to tell federal agencies to compile a budget that would increase spending on the military but cut nearly every other agency, with the Environmental Protection Agency particularly on the chopping block. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump proposes doubling funding for effort to end HIV epidemic

Cassidy Morrison · February 10, 2020 10:26 pm

Students line up to sanitize their hands to avoid the contact of coronavirus before their morning class at a hight school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak.

The race to develop a coronavirus vaccine

Cassidy Morrison · February 4, 2020 5:00 am

In this March 7, 2017 file photo, rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvard chemistry chairman charged with lying about alleged ties to China

Caitlin Yilek · January 28, 2020 4:55 pm

Beltway Confidential

Stop sending federal research tax dollars to serial harassers

Matt Mackowiak · January 22, 2020 5:41 pm

A capuchin monkey sits in a cage in the police station after being recovered in street stall and will be transferred to Centro de AtenciÃ³n y DerivaciÃ³n de Animales, in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, April 10, 2018.

Taxpayer watchdog sues federal health agency for withholding animal testing records and videos

Carlin Becker · January 13, 2020 8:05 pm

"Every dollar that NIH invests in research returns more than $2 in that first year into the local economy," says National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

NIH head predicts Alzheimer’s breakthrough within five years

Kimberly Leonard · December 31, 2019 9:36 pm

Is this science? Taxpayers funding $700,000 climate change musical

Henry Miller · December 20, 2019 3:58 pm

"The generic animal drug industry is a relatively new industry. It is really growing," said Steven Solomon, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Federal spending bill includes historic effort to curb government animal tests

Carlin Becker · December 17, 2019 10:26 pm

The world 'Truth' is etched on a pillar in the new NBC studios.

City rejects anti-animal testing transit ad, claiming it promotes ‘prohibited’ substances to minors

Carlin Becker · November 15, 2019 2:00 pm