The National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya announced it would be closing its in-house beagle laboratory on the NIH campus.

The NIH’s controversial in-house Clinical Center on its Bethesda, Md., campus had been accused of pushing pneumonia-causing bacteria into 2,000 beagles’ lungs, among other brutal experiments.

Trump-appointed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said during a "Fox and Friends" interview on May 4 that "we got rid of all the beagle experiments on the NIH campus." An NIH spokesperson said, "NIH ...

All the projects that performed tests on the canine have ended. “We got rid of all of the beagle experiments on NIH campus,” NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said during ...

Those moves, among others, have generated widespread confusion, anxiety and fear among scientists and doctors on the sprawling NIH campus outside Washington, D.C., and at institutions dependent on ...

Clinical research conducted at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Md., continues but recruitment of new patients is on hold. As President Trump takes the reins of the federal ...