Tag: NIH

What every cancer patient needs is "a little bit of hope," wrote Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden outlines one year of cancer ‘moonshot’ progress

Nicole Duran · October 17, 2016 8:57 pm

Now that funding has been approved, the administration can initiate new activities such as new vaccine or diagnostic contracts and new rounds of state funding for local Zika response. (AP Photo)

Zika money won’t flow immediately

Robert King · October 3, 2016 4:01 am

The federal government is offering more than $6 million in grants to entities to explore new methods of birth control. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Feds offer millions to develop new birth control methods

Pete Kasperowicz · September 30, 2016 7:01 pm

House Republicans called for a federal watchdog to examine the National Institutes of Health's role in a controversy surrounding grants for brain research. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

House Republicans target NIH, not NFL, over brain research

Robert King · September 15, 2016 7:27 pm

The podcast series explores how NIH-funded researchers recently have developed new treatments. (iStock photo)

Podcasts highlight need for more medical research funds

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 12, 2016 5:15 pm

Health officials dipped into research money for cancer and diabetes to help fund the trial. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

NIH’s Fauci: Zika vaccine trial will stop without funding

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 8, 2016 5:13 pm

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., a major leader of the House effort, and top Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee (above), are in talks with the White House and top Democrats Rep. Frank Pallone, R-N.J. and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on "ways to pass the 21st Century Cures legislation in September," said a Senate committee aide. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators eye September goal for cures bill

Robert King · September 5, 2016 4:01 am

"I could not be prouder to stand with Vice President Biden in this fight, and as president, I will take up the charge," Hillary Clinton said in a statement Monday before an appearance with Biden in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo)

Clinton endorses Biden’s ‘cancer moonshot’

Robert King · August 15, 2016 6:19 pm

Researchers won't have enough money to start preparing testing sites in late fall, Dr. Anthony Fauci said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Health officials say lack of Zika funding will stymie vaccine development

Paige Winfield Cunningham · August 11, 2016 7:07 pm

Anti-abortion group pushes adult stem cell research

Paige Winfield Cunningham · August 10, 2016 4:01 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell wrote in a letter Wednesday that the National Institutes of Health will exhaust its money for Zika vaccine development and that a second phase of clinical trials will be delayed. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Administration: Money for Zika vaccine testing runs out by end of month

Robert King · August 3, 2016 6:46 pm

The vaccine is being administered to at least 80 healthy individuals at three sites around the country.

Federal scientists start testing Zika vaccine

Paige Winfield Cunningham · August 3, 2016 4:15 pm