When President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, one group of health researchers was cautiously optimistic that their cause ...

Kevin Hall, ultra-processed food expert, says he took retirement after the HHS censored his work and that, despite requests, ...

Nutrition is critical for combating chronic diseases in the United States, but research on optimal diets is inconsistent, ...

The joint initiative is the latest effort to fulfill Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s commitment to “make America healthy again.” ...

Agency leaders plan to study ultra-processed foods, but their top researcher on the topic left a month ago, and they’re still cutting staff and research funding.

Survey of hundreds of scientists’ work suggests that cutting off funding disrupts focus and reduces the novelty of research.

An internal spreadsheet of terminated NIH ... longer focus on under new priorities, such as gender identity, vaccine hesitancy and diversity, equity and inclusion. Grants related to research ...

Kennedy told lawmakers that the most important action the federal government could take to improve the nation’s nutrition would be “to deploy NIH and FDA to [do] the research to understand the ...