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The researchers are looking at how a variety of external risk factors, like diet, stress and exposure to pollution or viruses, can help cause Type 1 diabetes.

Chinese scientists work for an authoritarian government where politics, not facts, always come first, and the risks range from loss of job, your kids’ career prospects, even prison.

Leading virologists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, are demanding a deeper probe into China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology as they try to identify the source of the deadly coronavirus.

Drugmakers will walk away with with massive profits, but much of the pioneering work on mRNA vaccines was done with government money.

But Dr. Francis Collins says it's unlikely a vaccine will be approved before late November. He also urges people to trust health experts like Anthony Fauci who "don't really have an ax to grind."

Most Americans have never heard of Dr. Richard Whitley, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.Yet as the…

EcoHealth Alliance is one of 11 recipients of funds to set up the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. But the grant won't let them revisit earlier research on bats and coronavirus.

The condition stems from overusing the voice, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

The National Institutes of Health has asked the Food and Drug Administration to delay allowing the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 because the proof of its effectiveness is weak.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, about the surge in coronavirus cases, the reopening of schools this fall and the race for a vaccine.