NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins about how the new COVID-19 variant might affect U.S. response and where the national strategy goes from here.

NPR's Noel King talks to Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, about how COVID-19 vaccines may be distributed, and concern over those who say they won't get the vaccine.

Inside the National Institutes of Health, there was little doubt about who would be tapped to lead the world’s preeminent biomedical institution through the first weeks of the second Trump ...

Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies. By Gina Kolata ...

Dr. Lawrence Tabak, the No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health, did not give a reason for his departure. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Reporting from Washington. The No. 2 official at the ...