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First Addiction Science Award to be Given to Students at International Science Fair
05/08/08
This year, for the first time, three students will receive awards for exemplary projects in Addiction Science at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world's largest science competition for high school students. The...
Mothers' High Normal Blood Sugar Levels Place Infants at Risk for Birth Problems
05/08/08
Pregnant women with blood sugar levels in the higher range of normal -- but not high enough to be considered diabetes -- are more likely than women with lower blood sugar levels to give birth to babies at risk for many of the same problems seen in...
Duck-Billed Platypus Genome Sequence Published
05/07/08
The first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus
was published today by an international team of scientists, revealing
clues about how genomes were organized during the early evolution
...
NIHSeniorHealth Offers Tips on Eating Well as You Get Older
05/07/08
How should you eat as you get older? Which foods are likely to
keep you most healthy and which ones should you limit? Is it possible
to eat well and stay within a healthy weight? These and other questions
...
Mental Disorders Cost Society Billions in Unearned Income
05/07/08
Major mental disorders cost the nation at least $193 billion annually
in lost earnings alone, according to a new study funded by the
National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH).
Kidney Disease Substantially Worsens in a Fourth of African Americans despite Therapy for Hypertension
05/05/08
The best available treatment for chronic kidney disease from high
blood pressure did not keep the disease from substantially worsening
in about a fourth of African-Americans studied, according to long-term
...
Studies Test New Approaches to Islet Transplantation
05/02/08
Researchers from 11 medical centers in the United States,
Canada, Sweden, and Norway have begun testing new approaches to
transplanting clusters of insulin-producing islets in adults with
...
Researchers Find that a Small Molecule Can Activate an Important Cancer Suppressor Gene
05/01/08
By activating a cancer suppressor gene, a small molecule called
nutlin-3a can block cancer cell division, according to researchers
at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes
of...
Intensive Training for Medical Staff in Latin American Hospitals Reduces Serious Complication of Pregnancy
05/01/08
An intensive educational program for physicians and midwives involving
19 hospitals in Argentina and Uruguay dramatically reduced the
rate of postpartum hemorrhage, according to researchers from the
National...
Researchers Produce First Sequence Map Of Large-Scale Structural Variation in Human Genome
04/30/08
A nationwide team of researchers, funded in part by the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), has produced the first sequence-based map of large-scale
...
Researchers Find Quick Way to Make Human Monoclonal Antibodies against Flu
04/30/08
Human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) -- highly specific, identical, infection-fighting proteins produced in large quantities in the lab in cell lines that are derived from a single antibody-producing cell -- against influenza can be rapidly produced...
Research Findings Open New Front in Fight against AIDS Virus
04/29/08
A research group supported by the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) has uncovered a new route for attacking the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) that may offer a way to circumvent problems with drug
...
Scientists Form International Cancer Genome Consortium
04/29/08
"Cancer's complexity poses an enormous challenge. NIH is
highly encouraged that the worldwide scientific community is joining
to meet this challenge, and we are pleased to be a member of this
ambitious...
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