Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump ’s nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health faced questions Wednesday during his Senate confirmation hearing about how he would lead the agency and whether he would support policies handed down from Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, on Wednesday fielded a wide swath of questions from senators that largely revolved around how he plans to restore public trust in the nation’s premier biomedical research agency.

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, told a U.S. Senate panel he plans to focus the agency on chronic diseases, improve research integrity,

President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health pledges to restore public trust in science and medicine at a Senate panel Wednesday.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's pick to lead the NIH, appeared to be open studies investigating potential links between vaccines and autism, a long-debunked theory.

Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first statewide emergency declaration issued in response to COVID-19, setting up a long series of orders shuttering down businesses,

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health answered sharp questions in a confirmation hearing Wednesday about his views on vaccines, research funding and the role scientists should play in a pandemic.

About 1,000 NIH employees were terminated in February amid mass layoffs across the Health and Human Services Department.

Trump's pick to head the National Institutes of Health has been famously critical of the U.S.'s COVID-19 response.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Trump's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, faced scrutiny over how he would respond to any potential cuts to the department by DOGE. NBC News' Berkeley Lovelace Jr.