National Institutes of Health facing widespread vacancies in director roles

Our nation's top medical research agency is facing a major leadership vacuum. Right now, more than a dozen key director positions at the National Institutes of Health are unfilled. All but two of these vacancies opened after President Trump took office last year.>> The 139year-old agency remains the world's largest public funer of biomemed research for treatments and vaccines. NIH is also responsible for communicating crucial information about public health. For more, we want to bring in NBC News health rep ...