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  1. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    🚨Join us TOMORROW at 1:30pm ET for the next Scientific Freedom Lecture series talk, titled “Science is Under Attack: How Can We Save it?” Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a noted epidemiologist, author, and senior @HHSGov official will explore scientists’ role toward shaping the public’s trust in health science research.
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    RT @HHSResponse: .@NIHDirector_Jay: "There's going to be a new division at @NIH focused just on women's health. @FLOTUS made is very clear that she wants focus on topics in women's health that have been neglected."
    HHS @HHSGov
    Today, @POTUS, joined by @FLOTUS, signed an executive order directing HHS to establish a new Women’s Health Division at @NIH to strengthen research, accelerate medical breakthroughs, and improve health outcomes for women and girls. The order also establishes a White House Women’s Health Task Force, co-chaired by @SecKennedy and @SusieWiles47, to coordinate federal efforts to advance women’s health at every stage of life—from childhood and adolescence to reproductive health, menopause, and healthy aging.
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    Today, @POTUS, joined by @FLOTUS, signed an executive order directing HHS to establish a new Women’s Health Division at @NIH to strengthen research, accelerate medical breakthroughs, and improve health outcomes for women and girls. The order also establishes a White House Women’s Health Task Force, co-chaired by @SecKennedy and @SusieWiles47, to coordinate federal efforts to advance women’s health at every stage of life—from childhood and adolescence to reproductive health, menopause, and healthy aging.
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    RT @HHSResponse: .@NIHDirector_Jay: "There's going to be a new division at @NIH focused just on women's health. @FLOTUS made is very clear that she wants focus on topics in women's health that have been neglected."
    The White House @WhiteHouse
    Strengthening research, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for girls and women throughout every stage of life. 💛 @FLOTUS champions a new executive order that creates a White House Women’s Health Task Force and establishes a new Women’s Health Division within the NIH.
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    Strengthening research, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for girls and women throughout every stage of life. 💛 @FLOTUS champions a new executive order that creates a White House Women’s Health Task Force and establishes a new Women’s Health Division within the NIH.
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  7. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    😴What if the information gathered during a routine overnight sleep study could help doctors predict a patient’s early risk factors for heart disease or other cardiovascular illnesses? A new NIH-funded study suggests it’s possible. ➡️
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  8. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    🧐What is the scientific community’s role toward restoring the public’s trust in health sciences research following the COVID-19 pandemic? @HHSGov Chief Science and Data Officer Dr. Martin Kulldorff and I will examine this and other issues on Oct. 28 at 1:30pm ET, during the next NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture. Webcast link in the replies.
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  9. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    Funding basic science that advances our understanding of menopause, endometriosis, and other women’s health issues is important—but we can do more. Our new NIH Women’s Health Division will work in concert with the White House Women’s Health Task Force to translate findings from basic studies into cutting-edge solutions that help American women live longer, healthier lives.
    CBS Mornings @CBSMornings
    First lady Melania Trump is set to spearhead the effort to focus on health issues that disproportionately impact woman, after President Trump signed an executive order to launch a task force Monday. NIH Director @DrJBhattacharya and Alicia Jackson, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, tell @gayleking and @norahodonell how they hope the task force drives more solutions for physicians and women in the U.S.
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  10. CBS Mornings✓@CBSMornings
    First lady Melania Trump is set to spearhead the effort to focus on health issues that disproportionately impact woman, after President Trump signed an executive order to launch a task force Monday. NIH Director @DrJBhattacharya and Alicia Jackson, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, tell @gayleking and @norahodonell how they hope the task force drives more solutions for physicians and women in the U.S.
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  11. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    Glad to see someone is on board with making replication a top priority! Although the notion that NIH is “scaling down” our work on replication is complete fiction. We are deeply committed to making replication a core part of the biomedical research enterprise. Work is moving forward on many fronts: 🔎 Investing $174M in efforts to test interventions that incentivize replication, support research with built-in replication, and more. 🔎 Created the Linked Discoveries tool in PubMed Central, which connects researchers with related evidence and replication studies. 🔎 Issued highlighted topic encouraging research on rigor, transparency and replicability. 🔎 Creating a new S-index to measure (and incentivize) data sharing among researchers, with other new metrics to come. 🔎 [Coming soon]: a new journal focused on replication work. No amount of money will fix the issues the scientific enterprise faces on this topic. It requires a major cultural change affecting how we conduct, evaluate and reward scientific work. The culture of biomedical science must reward replicable, reproducible research — or else we won’t make much progress improving human health.
    STAT @statnews
    “Committing a Type 1 error does not reflect poorly on the quality of the science done,” writes Mark Louie F. Ramos
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  12. STAT✓@statnews
    “Committing a Type 1 error does not reflect poorly on the quality of the science done,” writes Mark Louie F. Ramos
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  13. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    Women make up half our population, yet too many questions about their health remain unanswered. President Trump’s Executive Order marks an exciting opportunity to strengthen NIH’s investment in women’s health research and advance the Administration’s commitment to improving women’s health throughout the lifespan. Under the order, we look forward to establishing a new Women’s Health Division. Working closely with NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health, the division will strengthen the Federal Government’s ability to: • coordinate research on women’s health conditions, including replication studies; • address gaps in scientific understanding; and • accelerate the translation of discoveries into better health outcomes.
    HHS @HHSGov
    Today, @POTUS, joined by @FLOTUS, signed an executive order directing HHS to establish a new Women’s Health Division at @NIH to strengthen research, accelerate medical breakthroughs, and improve health outcomes for women and girls. The order also establishes a White House Women’s Health Task Force, co-chaired by @SecKennedy and @SusieWiles47, to coordinate federal efforts to advance women’s health at every stage of life—from childhood and adolescence to reproductive health, menopause, and healthy aging.
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  14. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    NIH had a strong FY2026: ✅ $35.2 billion in extramural funding ✅ 15% increase in funding for competing awards ✅ Record-breaking 1,648 R01-equivalent grants supporting early-stage investigators Yet some have fixated on a single number: fewer grant awards. But the grant count measures transactions, not scientific investment, much less scientific progress. The questions that matter are whether the best science is funded, whether the next generation is able to test their ideas, and whether taxpayer dollars are being soundly invested to help Americans live longer, healthier lives. On those measures, FY2026 was a strong year.
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  15. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    NIH’s Pain Research Center (PRC) is taking on one of medicine’s most complex challenges: understanding and treating pain. During my visit to the PRC, researchers demonstrated how they are using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to gain new insights into how the brain experiences pain. This technology could be especially valuable for studying pain in people who may have difficulty verbally communicating what they are experiencing. The PRC reflects a broader strength of the NIH research environment, bringing together scientific expertise, interdisciplinary collaboration, and cutting-edge technology to address widespread public health challenges.
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    Pain can shape how someone sleeps, works, moves, and spends time with the people they love. That’s what makes research into better ways to understand and manage it so meaningful. I had the chance to visit NCCIH and learn more about their intramural pain research program from their postbaccalaureate and postdoctoral fellows, whose work includes how mood and affect influence pain, the role of the amygdala in pain, and the epidemiology of pain, to name a few. Hearing about their work made me excited about the future possibilities for pain research and reinforced why investing in the next generation of scientists matters. Learn more about NCCIH’s intramural research program:
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    Researchers tend to have their best, most innovative ideas early in their careers. But for decades, researchers have had to wait longer and longer to test their own ideas. Thrilled by the progress we’ve made so far on this front, including the huge milestone of setting a new record for grants supporting early-stage investigators.
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  19. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    What can help people manage pain after surgery while reducing opioid use? Research at NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is helping answer that question. NCCIH Director Dr. Wendy Weber shared findings from the NOHARM study with me, which included more than 68,000 participants. The study found that combining clinical support with non-drug approaches reduced opioid use after surgery without compromising pain control. Thank you to Dr. Weber and the NCCIH team for sharing the research behind this progress.
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  20. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD✓@NIHDirector_Jay
    A couple days late, but I couldn’t let the news pass without congratulating my former macroeconomics professor, Bob Hall, on receiving the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences—an extraordinary and well-deserved recognition. His work has long challenged us to think more broadly about the relationship between health and economic prosperity. In an influential paper, Bob demonstrated that traditional measures of economic success such as GDP can significantly undervalue the economic benefits of improvements in health. This reminds us that measures like GDP cannot fully capture what we gain when people live longer. As NIH Director, I see that as a powerful way to think about our mission: scientific advances that improve health matter profoundly to individuals, families, and the nation. By revealing the hidden economic value of longer, healthier lives, his research underscores the importance of making investments that improve the health of the population, which is exactly the mission of the NIH. Having had the privilege of learning from Bob, it is especially meaningful to see his remarkable contributions recognized at the highest level.
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    These standards must protect everyone while ensuring research keeps pace with SI and synthetic biology. Join us in setting a new shared international standard.
    Under Secretary of State Thomas G. DiNanno @UnderSecT
    On the sidelines of #UNGA81, the @UnderSecT team co-hosted an event with @NIHDirector_Jay to highlight U.S. international leadership in implementing new standards to halt dangerous gain of function research. Representatives from 25 countries attended to learn more about how they can join us to #StopDGOF. Grateful also to Anna Puglisi (@WHOSTP47) and Taylor Sexton(@USForeignAssist) for their important contributions to the engagement.
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    On the sidelines of #UNGA81, the @UnderSecT team co-hosted an event with @NIHDirector_Jay to highlight U.S. international leadership in implementing new standards to halt dangerous gain of function research. Representatives from 25 countries attended to learn more about how they can join us to #StopDGOF. Grateful also to Anna Puglisi (@WHOSTP47) and Taylor Sexton(@USForeignAssist) for their important contributions to the engagement.
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    RT @SecKennedy: This week, I joined @NIHDirector_Jay, @DrOzCMS, and @DrSchwartzCDC at NIH to open a historic clinic dedicated to studying and caring for patients experiencing health problems following vaccination. We must listen to patients and families who report vaccine injuries—not dismiss or gaslight them. President Trump and I are building a health system that takes them seriously, follows the evidence, and uses what we learn to make vaccines safer. This is how we earn back trust in our public health institutions.
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    An NIH-funded research team has developed a laboratory model that provides essential new information to grow our knowledge of plasma cell development and function. Advances like these drive our understanding of the human immune system, which opens new paths toward preventing disease, improving treatments, and helping people live longer, healthier lives. Read the full story ➡️
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