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New Publication Offers Relief to Those Suffering from Pain and Other Distressing Symptoms of Illness
11/20/09
Dealing with the symptoms of a serious illness is difficult. But help is available -- a new brochure describes a comprehensive treatment that helps reduce or eliminate the pain and other distressing symptoms of illness and medical treatments....
NIDA Stimulus Grant to Assess the Benefits of Counseling with HIV Screening
11/19/09
Public health experts encourage everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 to be HIV tested. Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the San Francisco Department of Public Health will determine whether receiving a rapid HIV...
NIEHS Awards Recovery Act Funds to Focus More Research on Health and Safety of Nanomaterials
11/19/09
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to tiny particles that are used...
NIGMS 'Challenge' Areas Get Millions in Recovery Act Funds
11/19/09
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has invested $16.4 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) funds to jump-start a range of research projects that address...
NIH Opportunity Network to Expand Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
11/18/09
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today announced the launch of the Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet), a trans-NIH initiative to expand the agency"s funding of basic behavioral...
Highlights of NHLBI-Supported Research Presented at American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions
11/18/09
New education strategies for better controlling hypertension and research suggesting a possible link between short-term and long-term exposure to air pollution and increased risk of constricted blood vessels are among the research highlights from...
Research Symposium Will Explore the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
11/18/09
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) will celebrate a decade of rigorous research with NCCAM's 10th Anniversary Research Symposium: Exploring the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Speakers will...
Study Finds Link Between Preeclampsia and Reduced Thyroid Function
11/18/09
Women who experience preeclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy, may have an increased risk for reduced thyroid functioning later in life, report a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The...
NIH Appoints Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. to be Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
11/17/09
BETHESDA, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 -- After an extensive national search, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced the appointment of Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D., to be director of the...
NIH Awards $8.5 Million for Research on Pharmaceuticals for Children
11/17/09
Studying drugs in pediatric populations is challenging because drugs often affect children differently than they do adults. The scarcity of pediatric studies limits the ability of doctors and scientists to predict drug dosing, safety and efficacy in...
Researchers Identify Gene Mutations Underlying Risk for Most Common Form of Parkinson's Disease
11/16/09
Two genes containing mutations known to cause rare familial forms of parkinsonism are also associated with the more common, sporadic form of the disease where there is no family history, researchers have found. The findings presented in the Nov. 15,...
NIAID Announces New Award to Study the Effects of Radiation and Aging on the Human Immune System
11/12/09
"The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded nearly $9.7 million over five years to the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), Japan, to study the effects of atomic...
New Publication Features Women in Science Careers at the National Institutes of Health
11/12/09
"Women in Science at the National Institutes of Health 2007-2008" is a new publication showcasing the achievements of some of the accomplished women at the NIH and is intended to inspire a diversity of girls and boys, women and men to enter or...
NIMH Seeks More BRAINS
11/10/09
The National Institute of Mental Health is seeking more BRAINS for 2010 by offering a second round of Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS). The program calls for innovative and groundbreaking research projects from...
NHLBI Publishes New Heart Healthy Cookbook
11/10/09
The health of your heart has a lot to do with the foods you eat. To help busy people and families shop for, prepare, and serve healthy meals, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health created and...
NIH Announces First National Research Study Recruitment Registry
11/10/09
Individuals who want to participate in research studies now can connect online with researchers nationwide through the first disease-neutral, volunteer recruitment registry. ResearchMatch.org is a not-for-profit secure Web site, designed to provide...
Words, Gestures Are Translated by Same Brain Regions, Says New Research: Findings May Further Our Understanding of How Language Evolved
11/09/09
Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders...
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...
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