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NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology
Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya ...
NIH Director's COVID Comments Spark Staff Walkout
TUESDAY, May 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dozens of staff at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) walked out of a ...
Opinion: Plan to restructure NIH would stall science, not streamline it
But this plan would not streamline science — it would stall it. Merging smaller institutes into larger ones would increase ...
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NIH director bemoans RIFs, mocks ‘5 things’ email and says agency shoulders blame for COVID outbreak in first address
New agency head also says some laid off employees may be recalled, including to help address supply shortages at labs and ...
Walkout during NIH director’s town hall
Dozens of NIH staffers walked out of a town hall with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya earlier this month. When his son needed a $2.2 ...
The threat to the NIH
Begun as a single-room laboratory in a Staten Island hospital in 1887, the NIH has ballooned into a $47 billion organization ...
Trump's NIH director said agency 'got rid' of all beagle experiments on campus. Here's what we know
Animal welfare groups had long accused the National Institutes of Health of killing thousands of beagles in septic shock experiments.
CDC nixes language recommending COVID-19 shot for kids – suggests families consult doctors after RFK Jr. teased removal from vaccine schedule
Children as young as 6-months-old may still receive COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC advised Thursday — but the shot is no longer recommended for healthy kids.