In an ironic turn of events, a Stanford University professor whom Francis Collins, the former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), attacked, has been nominated to head that very agency. Wh

In what some are calling poetic justice, Dr Jay Bhattacharya s appointment to head the NIH comes after his predecessor, Dr Francis Collins, smeared him as a fringe character

Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins sang during an anti-Trump rally in video posted on social media Friday.

Jay Bhattacharya has spent years railing against the National Institutes of Health. What happens when he runs it?

Critics called Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya a dangerous “fringe” thinker, because he stood up to the health care establishment’s authoritarian arrogance.

Christian geneticist Francis Collins resigned abruptly as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On Wednesday this week, the U.S. Senate held a confirmation hearing for a new NIH director,

Dr. Bhattacharya’s confirmation is about more than just public health—it is a referendum on how we, as a society, handle expertise, dissent, and policy-making in times of crisis. The confirmation process will reveal whether we have learned from the past or whether we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in the next emergency.