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The research hospital cares for people with rare or life-threatening diseases. This year, patient numbers plummeted.
Mariah Blake's “They Poisoned the World” exposes the corporate campaign to hide the dangers of PFAS and its human toll.
In 2009, the agency concluded climate change endangers humans and the environment. Now, Lee Zeldin plans to reverse course.
"Sea of Grass" tackles the conquest and exploitation of the American prairie, a rich ecological world in need of rescue.
Companies have scant financial incentive to develop new antibiotics. Will the NIH continue to support relevant research?
As more people become aware of high exposures to PFAS, blood tests and clear medical advice can be difficult to find.
The agency's new drug czar wants to reanalyze risk-benefit data on ingestible fluoride, which is recommended for many ...
In the beginning, the Big Bang happened, sending everything in the universe expanding outward and apart, from a dense hot point. Since then, all that matter and energy has continued to move outward, ...
The researchers published their findings in the journal Science in 2017, and the results showed that the parts of the brain responsive to the tone were more active when participants reported hearing ...
In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...
For some patients, removing brain tissue can help treat OCD and other disorders. But ethical concerns remain.
Its approach is novel: Most geoengineering research today is led by scientists in the U.S. at universities and federal agencies, and the work they are doing is more or less accessible to public ...