In a nutshell Americans with a college degree live about 11 years longer than those without a high school diploma as of 2019, and this life expectancy gap has grown wider over the past two decades – ...

According to agency officials and knowledgeable people, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to freeze external communications, including weekly scientific reports, health ...

A team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.

Trump’s nominees have big plans for remaking the federal health agencies, with consequences for university scientists who receive billions in funding.

A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of ...

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

The Trump administration’s freeze on communications from U.S. health agencies is leading to another disruption: the abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings. The move covers a swath of health ...

U.S. health agencies including the CDC this week canceled meetings with external groups, paused some public health publications and told employees to freeze travel after directives from the Department ...

The new administration wants to slash aid for health, food and housing, but many of those programs now reach the struggling working class he is courting.

President Trump has imposed temporary freezes at the National Institutes of Health on meetings, travel, communications and hiring, citing the need to review protocols.

Vaccines, antibiotics, antiviral medications and anti-inflammatory drugs are all associated with a reduced risk of dementia, researchers reported in a study published Tuesday in the journal ...