PORTLAND (WGME) – A proposed pause in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has sparked concerns among Maine researchers and families who rely on life-saving medical advancements.

The threat of NIH funding cuts is already having a ripple effect at the University of Pittsburgh. "The feel on my floor at the university is very somber and uncertain," said Nicole Hays ...

“Over the last few years, top NIH officials oversaw a culture of coverup, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differed from theirs,” Bhattacharya said in prepared remarks seen ...

He came to the NIH in 1993 to lead the Human Genome Project, which in 2003 completed mapping the human DNA instruction book — two years ahead of schedule and $400 million under budget ...

Collins, who notified the NIH on Friday of his decision, did not specify the reasons for his departure. But his retirement comes as the world's largest public funder of biomedical research is in ...

The freeze occurred because the Trump administration had blocked the NIH from posting any new notices in the Federal Register, which is required before many federal meetings can be held. The stoppage ...

The American public has consistently supported this life-saving cancer research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the main federal agency for medical research, provides about $8 billion in ...