The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced a “multi-disciplinary, community-focused series of studies” to ...

The NIH says that it plans to monitor the ongoing health of East Palestine residents, and to address community concerns ...

The National Institutes of Health said Thursday that it will fund longer-term health studies of the residents of East ...

The Trump administration announced plans to investigate the long-term health effects of a toxic train derailment in East ...

The funding comes at the urging of Vice President JD Vance, who said the 'historic research initiative will finally result in ...

The Trump administration is launching a research initiative into the long-term health outcomes stemming from the 2023 train ...

The National Institutes of Health is launching a five-year, $10 million research initiative into the long-term health effects ...

“NIH is working to ensure that the people of East Palestine and the surrounding communities are listened to, cared for, and get the answers they deserve,” said a statement from NIH Director ...

The study was launched at the urging of Vice President and former Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance and will span five years.

While it took Biden over a year to visit East Palestine, he did award six NIH grants to universities in February of 2024 to study both the environmental and epidemiological impacts of the derailment.

The NIH launched a five-year, ... “East Palestine was ground zero, but the impact of the explosion has far-reaching, multi-state repercussions,” Kiger added.