Trump signs executive order on women's health
"Who the hell wouldn't have a women's health division?" President Trump said Monday.
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"Who the hell wouldn't have a women's health division?" President Trump said Monday.
Research on monkeys comes under attack as patients wait for cures.
A former NIH official says she was removed after clashes over vaccines, accusing RFK Jr. and his deputies of posing "a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety."
Scientists conducting medical research are facing an existential crisis: Layoffs and budget cuts pushed by President Trump that, they say, jeopardize finding a cure for cancer.
"This is a setback of probably a decade for HIV vaccine research," one scientist said.
Dr. Timothy Johnson says that by cutting more than $1.8 billion in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Trump administration risks destroying America's medical research infrastructure and prompting a "brain drain" of scientists to other countries.
"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.
Dr. Lawrence Tabak was the health research agency's second-in-command.
