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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched an effort to advance research on whole-person health and create an integrated knowledge network of healthy physiological function. Whole person health involves looking at the whole person—not just separate organs or body systems—and considering multiple factors that promote health. For example, a multicomponent lifestyle intervention including healthy diet, …

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach Megan on Signal at mmolteni.13. Thanks to a frenzy of grantmaking activity during August, the National Institutes of Health looks, for the first time this year, like it might be …

Whistleblower complaints allege resistance to vaccines within NIH  The Washington Post Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H.  The New York Times Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations  statnews.com Source link

Earlier this month, the Trump administration said it was terminating $500 million in mRNA vaccine research and shifting its focus to other approaches, including a previously announced “whole-virus” vaccine platform dubbed “Generation Gold Standard.” “Generation Gold Standard is a paradigm shift,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, said in a news release in May touting …

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can go ahead with cuts to active research grants.Credit: Perry Spring/iStock via Getty The US Supreme Court has derailed researchers’ efforts to reinstate almost $2 billion in research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The court’s decision on Thursday represents a remarkable reversal, allowing …

A splintered US Supreme Court let the Trump administration temporarily cut off potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in medical research grants that government officials say don’t align with the president’s policies. The justices partially put on hold a federal trial judge’s decision that the National Institutes of Health acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it terminated thousands …

Supreme Court clears way for nearly $800 million in cuts to NIH grants  The Washington Post Trump Pays Visit to Law Enforcement Officers in D.C.: Live Updates  The New York Times Trump administration wins Supreme Court fight to slash NIH medical research grants tied to DEI, LGBTQ studies  Fox News The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants  vox.com Supreme …

US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants  Reuters Trump Pays Visit to Law Enforcement Officers in D.C.: Live Updates  The New York Times Supreme Court allows NIH to stop making nearly $800M in research grants for now  NPR Supreme Court clears way for nearly $800 million in cuts to NIH grants  The Washington Post Supreme Court lets Trump admin cut off health …

When the director of the National Institutes of Health this week said funding for the development of mRNA vaccines – the backbone of Covid vaccines – was being wound down because they had failed to “earn public trust”, it was met, publicly and privately, with exasperated incredulity. Critics say few have done more than Jay Bhattacharya and other top health …

NIH cancels mRNA vaccine contracts, citing lack of public trust  The Hill Why RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign Is Working  The Atlantic Trump administration leaves biotech investors more wary than ever of funding mRNA vaccines  statnews.com Moderna Stock Jumps as NIH Chief Tempers Administration’s Attack on mRNA  Barron’s Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Impact So Far: ‘The Worst Possible Case’  The New York Times Source …