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Two Democratic Senators held a forum Wednesday on Trump administration attempts to cut funds for National Institutes of Health. Panelists described how proposed cuts would affect research and patients.

Federal funding freezes are already having an impact in the Capital Region, where research is a key sector of the economy.

As a coalition of state attorneys general try to claw back research funding the Trump administration sought to cut, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey stopped at one of the state’s premier research hospitals, describing how it stands to lose out substantially if NIH funding cuts go through.

A New York state research scientist has admitted taking payments from a technology supplier while steering federal grant money to the company. Gerwin…

New York Congresswoman Nita Lowey says federal funding will help spinal cord research at an institute in Westchester County.Lowey, a Democrat who chairs…

A biomedical conference that is held once a decade in Vermont began this afternoon in Burlington.The Northeast Regional IDeA Conference is bringing more…

After months of discussion, Congress adjourned for the summer Thursday with no Zika legislation in sight.Calling for an aggressive campaign against the…

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer visited Albany Medical Center today, where he called for $1.9 billion in emergency funding to fight the Zika virus.Calling…

A Hudson Valley congresswoman says grant money is headed to medical researchers in Westchester County.Democratic Congresswoman Nita Lowey, the ranking…