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President Trump signed an executive order led by first lady Melania Trump that creates a White House Women's Health Task Force, co-chaired by chief of staff Susie Wiles and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and orders a new Women's Health Division at NIH within 90 days. The order revokes a Biden-era women's health research order and a 2023 memorandum. Here is what it does and who sits on the task force.

The HHS inspector general has opened a review of how NIH vets scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, a high-containment lab that works with high-risk pathogens. The project, announced Oct. 15, follows Sen. Tim Sheehy's call for an investigation ("We don't want Montana to be the next Wuhan") and charges against two of the lab's scientists over deactivated mpox samples. Here's what the review covers.

The National Institutes of Health logged 697 allegations of potential foreign interference involving researchers on its awards from 2017 through 2025 and found disclosure violations in 264, a new GAO report says. GAO found NIH relies heavily on researchers reporting their own foreign ties, and in its own case studies turned up undisclosed affiliations, including five honorary professorships at Chinese universities. Here's what the report found.