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NHLBI Stops Enrollment in Study on Resuscitation Methods for Cardiac Arrest
11/06/09
Enrollment has ended early in a large, multicenter clinical trial
comparing two distinct resuscitation strategies delivered by emergency
medical service (EMS) providers to increase blood flow during cardiac
...
NIDA Launches New Substance Abuse Resources to Help Fill Gaps in Medical Education
11/06/09
The rigors of medical training sharpen a doctor's ability to diagnose and
treat a wide variety of human afflictions. However, drug abuse and addiction
are often insufficiently covered in medical school curricula, despite the fact
that drug use...
Researchers Discover Mutations in Two Genes that Cause Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease
11/05/09
An international team including researchers with the National Institutes of Health has discovered that mutations in either of two related genes cause a severe and rare form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in young children.
What Can Prevent Walking Disability in Older People?
11/04/09
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the award of $29.5 million in grant support over the next two years to determine whether a specific physical activity program can stave off disability...
NIAID Announces New Human Immunology Research Awards to Help Fight Emerging Infectious Diseases
11/04/09
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded approximately $208 million to two programs that support research to better understand the human immune response to emerging...
NIAID Awards Five-Year, $56 Million Contract to Continue Study of Asthma in Inner City Children
11/04/09
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has renewed the contract to continue studying asthma in children living in lower-income, inner city environments. This five-year, $56...
NIH Awards More than 50 Grants to Boost Search for Causes, Improve Treatments for Autism
11/04/09
The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than 50 autism research grants, totaling more than $65 million, which will be supported with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. These grants are the result of the largest funding...
NIH-Supported Trial to Study Testosterone Therapy in Older Men
11/02/09
Low serum testosterone may contribute to a number of problems affecting older men, including decreased ability to walk, loss of muscle mass and strength, decreased vitality, decreased sexual function, impaired cognition, cardiovascular disease and...
Initial Results Show Pregnant Women Mount Strong Immune Response to One Dose of 2009 H1N1 Flu Vaccine
11/02/09
Healthy pregnant women mount a robust immune response following just one dose of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine, according to initial results from an ongoing clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)...
Survey: Awareness of COPD -- The Nation's Fourth Leading Cause Of Death -- Is Rising, But Understanding Is Still Low
11/02/09
Awareness of COPD -- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- continues to grow in the United States, according to national survey results released today by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.
NIH Awards $27 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Enhance Scientist and Resource Networking
11/02/09
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced awards that will harness the power of social networking to help scientists and students throughout the country accelerate biomedical research. The same principles and technology that enable...
Clinical Tests Begin on Medication to Correct Fragile X Defect
11/02/09
NIH-supported scientists at Seaside Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass., are beginning a clinical trial of a potential medication designed to correct a central neurochemical defect underlying Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of...
Researchers Develop Innovative Imaging System to Study Sudden Cardiac Arrest
10/30/09
A research team at Vanderbilt University has developed an innovative optical system to simultaneously image electrical activity and metabolic properties in the same region of a heart, to study the complex mechanisms that lead to sudden cardiac...
NIH Launches Multicenter Clinical Trial to Test Blood Pressure Strategy
10/29/09
The National Institutes of Health is launching a large multicenter randomized clinical trial to determine whether maintaining blood pressure levels lower than current recommendations further reduces the risk of cardiovascular and kidney diseases, or...
NIAID Scientists Propose New Explanation for Flu Virus Antigenic Drift
10/29/09
Influenza viruses evade infection-fighting antibodies by constantly changing the shape of their major surface protein. This shape-shifting, called antigenic drift, is why influenza vaccines ? which are designed to elicit antibodies matched to each...
Federal Stimulus Grant Supports Crucial Study of Anti-Nicotine Vaccine
10/29/09
Efforts to develop a vaccine capable of preventing tobacco addiction got a $10-million shot in the arm in the form of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant. The award to Nabi Biopharmaceuticals of Rockville, Md., was funded by the National...
NIH Awards $75 Million for Research in Minority Institutions
10/29/09
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today that it will provide approximately $75 million over the next five years to support four institutions via NCRR's Research Centers in...
NIA Extends Research on Health, Economics of Older Americans
10/29/09
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the award of four grants totaling more than $19 million over the next two years to expand the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the nation's premier...
A Decade Later, Lifestyle Changes or Metformin Still Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk
10/29/09
Intensive lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes by 34 percent compared with placebo in people at high risk for the disease, researchers conclude based on 10 years of data.
Participants randomly...
NCMHD Recovery Act Funds Support Obesity Disparities in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Basin Jurisdiction
10/28/09
The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), a part of the National Institutes of Health, awards a two-year planning grant totaling $600,000 to study obesity-related disparities among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders....
NIH-Funded Researchers Transform Embryonic Stem Cells Into Human Germ Cells
10/28/09
Researchers funded in part by the National Institutes of Health
have discovered how to transform human embryonic stem cells into
germ cells, the embryonic cells that ultimately give rise to
sperm and...
NIEHS Awards Recovery Act Funds to Address Bisphenol A Research Gaps
10/28/09
Researchers studying the health effects of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) gathered in North Carolina to launch an integrated research initiative to produce data that will allow for a comprehensive assessment of its possible human health effects....
Recovery Act Funds Expand Studies of Stem Cell Biology
10/28/09
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is using $5.4 million of Recovery Act funds to accelerate basic studies of induced pluripotent stem cells. These cells, abbreviated iPS, are...
New EUREKA Awards Fund Highly Innovative Research, Promise Big Payoffs
10/28/09
The National Institutes of Health has awarded 56 grants of up to $67.4 million to support highly innovative research projects that promise big scientific payoffs. The new awards are part of the EUREKA (Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling...
A Call to Copenhagen -- Health Effects of Climate Change
10/27/09
Members of the press are invited to the unveiling
and policy discussion of a major international study on the
Public Health Impacts of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
being published in...
NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives Welcomes Six New Members to the Next Meeting, October 30, 2009, in Bethesda, Md.
10/26/09
The National Institutes of Health has selected six individuals to serve as members of the Director's Council of Public Representatives (COPR), the advisory committee to the NIH Director on issues important to the public.
Clinical Research Fellows Learn About Options and Opportunities
10/26/09
More than 270 medical and dental students from 70 U.S. schools will be at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center next month for the seventh-annual Clinical Investigator Student Trainee Forum. The students, who represent the next...
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