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Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions

With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.

Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines

In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.

Immunotherapy Drug Spares Cancer Patients From Grisly Surgeries and Harsh Therapies

For a limited group of cancer patients who have solid tumors in the stomach, rectum, esophagus and other organs, an immunotherapy trial offered stunning results.

What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger

Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.

Trump budget draft ends Narcan program and other addiction measures.

A $56 million grant to train emergency responders and supply them with the overdose reversal spray, plus other programs that address addiction, could be eliminated.

‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal

The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs

After 20 percent of the agency’s work force was cut, federal health officials have decided to bring back some experts and review firings to fill gaps in critical roles.

Trump Cuts Threaten Agency Running Meals on Wheels

A tiny division responsible for overseeing services for people with disabilities and older Americans is being dismantled as part of an overhaul by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.

Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative

The decades-long research effort has contributed to thousands of research papers, altering medical care for women around the world.

Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating.

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way.

Young People Are Not As Happy As They Used to Be, Study Finds

New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be.

Humans’ Wounds Heal Much More Slowly Than Other Mammals’

We naked apes need Band-Aids, but shedding the fur that speeds healing in other mammals may have helped us evolve other abilities.

Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.

Europe’s Pharma Industry Braces for Pain as Trump Tariff Threat Looms

Medicines and chemicals are huge exports for European Union countries. That makes the sector a weak spot as trade tensions drag on.

David Paton, Creator of Flying Eye Hospital, Dies at 94

An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an airplane with an operating room.

Trump vs. Science

We explain the administration’s cuts to research.

Leaders of Mental Health Giant Promised Big Bonuses to Deal With Federal Investigations

Acadia Healthcare’s chief executive was awarded a $1.8 million bonus to respond to “unprecedented governmental inquiries” into allegations of holding psychiatric patients against their will.

Tariffs on China Aren’t Likely to Rescue U.S. Medical Gear Industry

The few domestic companies that still make protective gear for health care workers have clamored for federal intervention. But they worry President Trump’s trade war with China won’t help.

Birthrates Languish in Record Lows, C.D.C. Reports

Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics.

RFK Jr. Announces Ban on Food Dyes and Says ‘Sugar Is Poison’

The health secretary is ratcheting up his campaign against the food industry.

Georgian filmmaker embedded in a birth clinic for a year to make abortion drama

Dea Kulumbegashvili embedded for a year inside a maternity clinic for her new film, April, about an obstetrician in rural Georgia, as the country faces increased abortion restrictions.

Trend Alert: The girls are making office fashion sexy again

Pencil skirt. Kitten heels. Tiny glasses. And a little dark edge. These are just some of the elements of one of the most enduring fashion trends of the past couple of years: the office siren. But we're not just seeing this twist on office norms in fashion: we're also seeing it in TV shows like Severance and Industry, and with musicians like The Dare and FKA Twigs. So what are people expressing by reimagining office fashions? Brittany is joined by NPR's Life Kit producer Margaret Cirino to discuss the "freakification" of office wear — its long lineage in fashion, and what office tensions this trend is speaking to right now.

Baked, fried or fileted: Fish dishes can link us to our histories

The food we grow up with says a lot about our heritage and community. Researchers are on a mission to connect people to local fishers — and introduce more Americans to a more diverse array of seafood.

The Mellon Foundation announces 'emergency funding' for humanities councils

The Mellon Foundation has announced $15 million in "emergency funding" for 56 humanities councils across the country. The government recently eliminated $65 million in support.

A 20-year-old Portland tradition serves coffee and doughnuts to bikers on bridges

On the last Friday of each month in Portland, Ore., volunteers pass out breakfast items to bike commuters in an event called "Breakfast on the Bridges."

A world soccer tournament made for grandmothers

A world soccer tournament for 'grannies' has wrapped up. The annual event allows women from all over the world to show off and be appreciated for their athleticism.

Ada Limón reflects on her tenure as the poet laureate and bringing us back to wonder

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reflects on her term and the urgency of connecting to nature through poetry.

A new documentary checks out the many ways libraries are a 'Free For All'

By examining the value of libraries in the distant and recent past, this PBS film makes a compelling case for the importance of the American public library system today.

How Project 2025 is shaping Trump's second term

Journalist David Graham says the aim of the creators of the conservative action plan Project 2025 is to push the federal government "as far to the right as they can." His new book is The Project.

There's some Revolutionary reading coming your way this week

The second volume in Pulitzer-winning historian Rick Atkinson's planned trilogy on the American Revolution publishes Tuesday. Plus a graphic memoir, short fiction, and "the secret life" of a cemetery.