WASHINGTON -- "When you mix politics and science, you just get politics." Former NIH director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, made ...

Earlier this month, a Trump administration plan to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by more than 40% was leaked to the press. The preliminary budget sent shockwaves through the nation ...

According to former NIH director Francis Collins, if the U.S. loses its status as the leader in biomedical research, the consequences will be about more than health — they'll also be about ...

Those are people's lives at risk," Dr. Francis Collins, who led the agency for 12 years under three administrations, told CBS News. Here in the real world, the price of gas and groceries are still ...

Like “every other scientist, I was not allowed to speak in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting,” Francis Collins, a geneticist who had worked for the biomedical research agency since the ...