Planned funding cuts by the National Institutes of Health’s, the United States' leading medical research agency, could impact Alabama health care, jobs and future medical breakthroughs. On Friday, the NIH said it would make immediate cuts to indirect research costs,

A $4 billion reduction in medical research funding will hit Republican districts and states hard. At least one of their lawmakers seems to have noticed.

The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical centers.