Tag: NIH

"The people who are actually doing the research have no desire to talk to anyone right now," said Jacob Appel, a doctor and bioethicist based at the Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC.Â (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump administration aims to develop replacements for fetal tissue in research

Kimberly Leonard · December 10, 2018 8:38 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)

‘Deeply disturbing’: NIH director criticizes scientist’s claimed genetic editing of human embryo

Robert King · November 28, 2018 6:01 pm

Christine Jelinek, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, works alongside a tray of vials containing cerebral spinal fluid in Baltimore on Aug. 10, 2015.

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HHS looks to end unnecessary fetal tissue research and protect the unborn

Nicole Russell · November 19, 2018 6:34 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The CDC said in a press release on May 19, 2016, that at least one violation was uncovered in nearly 80 percent of public pool and hot tub inspections in five states.

CrossFit sues NIH and CDC Foundations over donor list

Kimberly Leonard · October 4, 2018 10:58 pm

Helping patients without ending lives

Rep. Jim Banks · September 25, 2018 1:21 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2017, file photo, containers of Roundup, a weed killer made by Monsanto, is seen on a shelf at a hardware store in Los Angeles. Republican lawmakers are threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organizationâs cancer research program over its finding that the glyphosate herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans.

Carcinogenic junk science is finding its way into the courtroom

Sherman Joyce · September 7, 2018 4:00 am

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins speak during a news conference in Trenton, N.J.

NIH director defends industry-funded studies criticized by Elizabeth Warren

Robert King · August 23, 2018 4:26 pm

White House frowns on funding for medical research, teen pregnancy prevention in Senate ‘minibus’

Kimberly Leonard · August 15, 2018 9:48 pm

The urgent case for nonaddictive cigarettes

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2018 4:00 am

The amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every American to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. (AP Photo/Chris Post)

Senate panel advances key funding bill for opioids, medical research

Robert King · June 28, 2018 3:46 pm

Bottle of omega 3 fish oil capsules.

Fish oil supplements don’t help reduce dry eyes: Study

Robert King · April 13, 2018 8:30 pm

People carry a March for Science banner and signs as they pass the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the March For Science in Washington on April 22, 2017.

A ‘March for Science,’ or for political partisanship?

Henry I. Miller and Julie Kelly · April 13, 2018 4:00 am