The National Institutes of Health funds research, but some scientists fear that funding may be pulled or paused by the Trump administration.

Trump has frozen all travel and communications at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the CDC and the National Institutes of Health

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at his first confirmation hearing that he isn't trying to take anyone's junk food away if he becomes the secretary of health and human services. His confirmation process begins in the shadow of a scathing Jan.

Senators pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his past vaccine and abortion remarks in the first of two days of hearings before senators vote on whether to confirm him as President Trump’s health secretary.

In a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, RFK Jr. diagnosed a nation’s health ills but fails to diagnose remedies.

U.S. states have been under siege for the past five days with a flurry of executive orders aimed at dismantling national health. Medicaid payments are frozen, leaving the one in four North Carolina residents who access this program without care.

If he is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take over a sprawling bureaucracy with an annual budget that tops $1.7 trillion, with more than 80,000 employees and 13 divisions.

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, announced that she will step down Friday, 14 months after she took the position on Nov. 9, 2023.

Sen. Warner accused RFK Jr. of offering vague responses and refusing to commit to protecting key federal healthcare programs.

Data: National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health; Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Some states have far more to lose than others if the second Trump administration cuts federal health and science funding.

Hirschsprung disease is a rare condition affecting one in every 5,000 babies, according to the National Institutes of Health.

With Trump’s federal freeze pausing health updates from agencies like CDC, and FDA, Georgia residents will have to look elsewhere for important information.