An electrician working at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, died Wednesday after falling through a storm grate.

U.S. medical research is at a precipice as President Trump proposes cutting $18 billion from the National Institutes of Health.

The NIH’s budget for fiscal 2019 is $39.1 billion, after three consecutive years with $2 billion increases. House Democrats are proposing another $2 billion increase for fiscal 2020.

The National Institutes of Health plans to bring 3,000 employees to its Bethesda campus in the next 20 years. Combined with planned development at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ...