National Institute of Health

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins holds up a model of the coronavirus as he testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images)

NIH director to step down by end of the year

The Director of the National Institute of Health, Francis Collins, has resigned after 12 years in the position. On Tuesday, the 71-year-old said he made the decision with the belief that “no single person should serve in a position for too long” and added it was time a new individual led the agency.

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. According to an analysis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Tuesday, April 6, 2021 in JAMA Pediatrics, most children with a serious inflammatory illness linked to the coronavirus had initial COVID-19 infections with no symptoms or only mild ones, new U.S. research shows. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

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Report: Wuhan Institute grant not reviewed by NIH oversight board

A new report shows the grant from the National Institute of Health for the Wuhan Institute of Virology was not reviewed by its oversight board. One America’s Jack Posobiec has more.