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Pipettes containing immune cells for testing against possible flu vaccines are seen in the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

NIH failed to monitor grant spending by foreign researcher recipients, inspector general reports

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Dr. Monica Bertagnolli speaks at the University of California, San Francisco’s cancer center in San Francisco, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. President Joe Biden announced on Monday, May 15, 2023, that he plans to nominate Bertagnolli, a cancer specialist, to become director of the National Institutes of Health. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Pool) **FILE**

NIH nominee vows to focus on rural needs, cooperate on COVID-19 probes if confirmed by Senate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue/pink, cultured in a laboratory. The National Institutes of Health is opening a handful of studies to start testing possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition. The announcement, Monday, July 31, 2023 comes amid frustration from patients who've struggled for months or years with sometimes disabling health problems. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms are the focus of new small treatment studies

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue/pink, cultured in a laboratory. The National Institutes of Health is opening a handful of studies to start testing possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition. The announcement, Monday, July 31, 2023, comes amid frustration from patients who've struggled for months or years with sometimes disabling health problems. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

Virus remains Biden focus as NIH launches long COVID trials

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Security personnel gather near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

National Institutes of Health cuts off Wuhan Institute of Virology from taxpayer funding

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on internal policy changes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Congress can cure ‘equity’ outbreak at National Institutes of Health

By Stewart Whitson

In this photo provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry press service, a cat waits to evacuate from a burning animal shelter in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 14, 2019. The Emergencies Ministry said its workers saved 300 cats and seven dogs from the fire. (Ministry of Emergency Situations for Northwest press service via AP)

NIH cuts off funding for Russian lab work, animal experiments after Biden order

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

(File photo credit: unoL via Shutterstock)

NIH spent billions on overseas animal testing but didn’t police anti-cruelty standards

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

GOP bill seeks to break up part of NIH that Dr. Anthony Fauci led, impose term limits

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This illustration made available by the National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health depicts cells in an Alzheimer’s affected brain, with abnormal levels of the beta-amyloid protein clumping together to form plaques, brown, that collect between neurons and disrupt cell function. Abnormal collections of the tau protein accumulate and form tangles, blue, within neurons, harming synaptic communication between nerve cells. An experimental Alzheimer’s drug modestly slowed the brain disease’s inevitable worsening, researchers reported Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022 — and the next question is how much difference that might make in people’s lives. Japanese drugmaker Eisai and its U.S. partner Biogen had announced earlier this fall that the drug lecanemab appeared to work, a badly needed bright spot after repeated disappointments in the quest for better Alzheimer’s treatments. (National Institute on Aging, NIH via AP)

Why conservatives should support high NIH funding

By Peter Mihalick

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senators move to create an inspector general to probe NIH funding

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this file photo, security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

NIH failed to track how China’s Wuhan virus lab was spending U.S. money

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 31, 2013, photo, a woman smokes marijuana during a Prohibition-era-themed New Year's Eve party at a bar in Denver, the day before Colorado allowed retail sales of marijuana to those 21 and over. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) **FILE**

Use of marijuana, hallucinogens surging among young adults: NIH survey

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this file photo, security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

U.S.-backed animal experiments in Chinese, Russian labs get new scrutiny by Congress, GAO

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the National Institute of Health's &quot;All of Us&quot; research program, people visit a study vehicle in Silver Spring, Md. on March 8, 2022. The study aims to eventually enroll a million Americans from all walks of life in a genomic database, part of a quest to reduce health disparities and offer care that's more tailored than today's one-size-fits-all approach. (Dianne Beltran/All of Us Research Program via AP)

Big U.S. gene database has volunteers from all walks of life

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection by a pharmacist at a clinic in Lawrence, Mass., on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, Research published Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2022, tracked nearly 4,000 U.S. women through six menstrual cycles and on average, the next period after a shot started about a day later than usual. But there was no change in the number of days of menstrual bleeding after COVID-19 vaccination. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) **FILE**

Study: COVID-19 vaccines linked to longer menstrual cycle, but not longer bleeding

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, visit by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Failure to report coronavirus-experiment findings renews Wuhan lab controversy

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this May 11, 2021, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Photo via AP, File)

NIH deleted early COVID-19 data at the request of the Chinese

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

First lady Jill Biden, center left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speak to a person as they visit a vaccine clinic at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Fauci poses for selfies, shakes hands in NYC after rough-and-tumble week

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden lauds scientists for rapid vaccine development, chides Trump for slow distribution

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times