Policy-based evidence making means working back from a predefined policy to produce underpinning evidence.

Google -- all its apps, smartphones, and the cloud business -- is responsible for 99% of Alphabet's total revenue. But Alphabet is toiling away on quite a few moonshot projects. What if one of them ...

Bhattacharya is a professor of health policy and economics at Stanford University who rose to prominence as a skeptic of ...

It came from the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH, and arrived with clear instructions: Post this announcement on your website immediately. The memo announced a new ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced earlier this month it would be cutting billions in costs associated with federally funded research grants that go to various institutions ...

In addition, several medical associations filed a third lawsuit in the same federal court challenging the legality of the NIH Rate Change Notice. The plaintiffs in all three cases offered similar ...

Dozens of NIH study sections — meetings in which panels of expert scientists consider which research projects the agency should support — have been canceled in recent weeks, after the Trump ...

In 1972, testicular cancer was a leading killer of young men — almost uniformly fatal. Today, it has a 90 percent survival rate. The drug responsible for this miraculous reversal, Cisplatin ...

The term refers to money NIH gives institutions where NIH-funded research is taking place to support overhead expenses such as electricity, maintenance staff, or lab space rent. Massachusetts ...

This incredible medical success story is due largely to NIH-funded biomedical research conducted in our nation’s universities and academic health systems. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

Stanford is the latest university to impose a school-wide hiring freeze as academic institutions nationwide brace for federal ...

He said his research is almost entirely reliant on NIH grants. The search for a cure for these rare disorders is a race against time, because researchers think treatment will be most effective if ...