U.S. completes withdrawal from World Health Organization
On Jan. 22, 2026, The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), one year…
On Jan. 22, 2026, The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), one year…
On Jan. 14, 2026, U.S. healthcare spending rose by 7.2% to $5.3 trillion in 2024 from $4.9 trillion…
On Jan. 13, 2026, The American Cancer Society (ACS) released Cancer Statistics, 2026, the organization’s annual report on cancer facts and trends. The findings show, for…
On Jan. 2, 2026, U.S. states will no longer be required to report how many children they vaccinate…
On Dec. 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that Montana State University will be home to…
On Dec. 1, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the deployment of agentic AI capabilities…
On Nov. 21, 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it has instructed staffers…
On Nov. 20, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical…
On Oct. 21, 2025, in the latest bid to plug gaps in the federal government’s public health infrastructure,…
On Sept. 25, 2025, the operator of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory laid off 68 employees effective November 18, saying “unforeseen business circumstances” meant it wasn’t able to provide…
On Sept. 3, 2025, The Golden Goose Award, which spotlights obscure, silly sounding or odd fundamental discovery research that…
On Aug. 27, 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez has left…
On Aug. 18, 2025, Vanda Pharmaceuticals announced that it secured a landmark victory over the U.S. Food and…
On Jul. 18, 2025, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it is eliminating its research and development arm…
On Jul. 8, 2025, the the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced plans to implement a new policy…
On Jun. 25, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a…
On Jun. 25, 2025, the U.S. will announced it will no longer contribute funding to Gavi, a global…
On Jun. 9, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all 17 members…
On May 1, 2025, the staff members at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) were told to “stop…
On Apr. 8, 2025, the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology delivered its major report and action plan…
On Apr. 1, 2025, layoff notices began arriving for thousands of employees of the sprawling U.S. Department of…
On Mar. 27, 2025, a Nature survey of more than 1,200 scientists, three-quarters of the total respondents are…
On Mar. 26, 2025, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) released results from a membership survey that underscores the…
Jan. 24, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies…
On Jan. 15, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced revoking the authorization for the use…
On Jan. 3, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the automatic addition of nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl…
On Dec. 18, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences released a report showing the current information ecosystem makes…
On Nov. 15, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report on Building…
On Oct. 2, 2024, a study from the GBD Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators reported that by accelerating the decline…
On Oct. 1, 2024, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced a study showing that although the U.S….