Government watchdog Open The Books reveals new data on royalties paid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The organization’s founder, Adam Andrzejewski, tells NTD the latest findings beg the question, “Has the healthcare products industry captured the agency?”
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are raking in the royalties. But the over $325 million tally is raising concerns. Where’s the money coming from, and what’s it paying for? President Joe Biden’s long-awaited ban on U.S. investment in China meeting with mixed reactions. Some are applauding it as a “major blow” to […]
President Joe Biden’s choice to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health has hauled in hundreds of millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in recent years, raising concerns about whether she’d serve the public independently. Dr. Monica Bertagnolli received $247 million in research funding from Pfizer from 2016 to 2021, according to disclosures […]
A cancer trial has reportedly become the first in the world to completely remove the disease in every patient, according to a study published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, titled “PD-1 Blockade in Mismatch Repair—Deficient, Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer” was conducted among 12 rectal cancer patients, all of which had a […]
The National Institutes of Health has made a change to its website. They wiped a detailed explanation of gain of function research. Why now?—as lawmakers accuse the agency of lying to Congress about this research.
A Facebook whistleblower testifies before the Senate, the director of the National Institutes of Health will step down by the end of the year, and the Department of Justice launches an effort with the FBI to combat threats parents have directed toward school board members.
An oversight board created to scrutinize research that would enhance highly dangerous pathogens did not review a National Institutes of Health grant that funded a lab in Wuhan, China, to genetically modify bat-based coronaviruses. Experts say the NIH grant describes scientists conducting gain-of-function research, a risky area of study that, in this case, made SARS-like […]
A U.S. nonprofit with close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology violated federal law by failing to disclose that taxpayer funds supported its work, according to a complaint a taxpayer watchdog group filed on Monday. EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) diverted $600,000 in taxpayer funds to the WIV in the form of National Institutes of Health […]
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday said that data from its trial of Gilead Sciences Inc’s remdesivir show that the drug offers the most benefit for COVID-19 patients who need extra oxygen but do not require mechanical ventilation. The peer-reviewed data was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial, […]
