FDA rolled out a generative artificial intelligence tool designed to help employees across the agency “work more efficiently.”
The White House has released the final version of the budget request for Fiscal Year 2026.
In the morning of May 28, presumably before turning off the lights and closing the office door, someone at the now defunct NCI Office of Communications and Public Liaision decided to post a farewell message to the cancer community. The message, posted on multiple social media accounts, read: Indeed, the entire communications arm of NCI... […]
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is considering a ban on government scientists publishing their work in top-tier medical journals, which he says are abed with pharmaceutical companies.
President Trump has issued an executive order, titled “Restoring Gold Standard Science,” which “ensures that agencies practice data transparency, acknowledge relevant scientific uncertainties, are transparent about the assumptions and likelihood of scenarios used, approach scientific findings objectively, and communicate scientific data accurately.”
The U.S. State Department has ordered U.S. embassies and consulates around the world to halt appointments for new student visas as the Trump administration prepares to increase social media vetting for all foreign students applying to study in the U.S.
A recent report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission cites ultraprocessed foods, electromagnetic radiation, and herbicides as possible reasons for increased cancer incidence in children.
On May 21, staff members of NCI’s dissolved Office of Communications and Public Liaison and friends gathered at the house of Peter Garrett and Ken Crerar.
NCI’s Cancer Information Highlights bulletin, a section of NCI’s Weekly Digest Bulletin that informs readers of research updates related to cancer causes, prevention, screening, treatment, and coping, will no longer be published due to restructuring and reductions in force at HHS.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on the so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” this week which included drastic, $715 billion cuts to Medicaid that will result in at least 8.6 million people losing health insurance coverage, including cancer patients and survivors.
