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- NIEHS Awards Discover Grants
- Brief Intervention Helps Emergency Patients Reduce Drinking
- Study Suggests Some Brain Injuries Reduce the Likelihood of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Delayed Adoption of New Treatments in Developing World Costs Lives
- NIH Launches Human Microbiome Project
- NIDDK’s Director Honored by Hematology Society
- Pheromones Trigger Aggression Between Male Mice
- Fitness Predicts Longevity in Older Adults
- Heart Attack Symptoms in Women
- Early Fine-Tuning of Neural Connections May Turn Destructive Later in Life
- NIH State-of-the-Science Panel Seeks to Dispel Stigma Associated With Fecal and Urinary Incontinence
- NIDA Survey Shows a Decline in Smoking and Illicit Drug Use Among Eighth Graders
- Researchers Test New Lab Method to Detect DNA Damage Throughout the Genome
- Heart Attack Symptoms in Women — Are they Different?
- Controlling Cholera with Oral Vaccines
- Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control
- New Calculations Assess Breast Cancer Risk in Black Women
- NINDS Announces New Spanish Language Website
- NIH Announces Collaboration With National Council of Negro Women to Reduce Childhood Overweight
- New Software To Aid Early Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
- Scientists Identify Gene That Influences Alcohol Consumption
- Pheromones Identified that Trigger Aggression between Male Mice
- NIH to Hold Conference on Fecal and Urinary Incontinence, December 10 – 12
- NIH to Hold Conference on Fecal and Urinary Incontinence, December 10 – 12
- Obesity May Skew Results of Prostate Cancer Test
- Embryonic Stem Cell Milestone Achieved in Primates
- Versatile Human Stem Cells Created Without Embryos
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health Announces New Strategic Plan
- Older Adults with Mild Memory Impairment Still Benefit from Cognitive Training in Areas not Reliant on Memorization
- Joint Statement from Drs. Elias Zerhouni, Jack Whitescarver, and Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health on World AIDS Day
- Acting U.S. Surgeon General Galson, NIH Director Zerhouni Announce Expanded Efforts to Address Nationwide Childhood Overweight Epidemic
- High-Trauma Fractures in Older Men and Women Linked to Osteoporosis
- People with Diabetes and Sickle Cell Trait Should Have Reliable A1C Test
- More Accurate Method of Estimating Breast Cancer Risk in African American Women Developed
- NCI Researchers Identify Novel Mechanism for Spread of Sarcoma Tumors
- Training Guide from the National Institute on Aging Helps Older Adults Find Health Information Online
- Ozone Can Affect Heavier People More
- NIDA Announces New Avant-Garde Award for Innovative AIDS Research
- Depression Linked to Bone-Thinning in Premenopausal Women
- National Institute on Drug Abuse Launches Public Service Campaign for Hispanic Youth on the Link between Non-Injection Drugs and HIV
- WHO Director-General to Deliver Barmes Lecture on “Climate Change and Health”
- Protein Key to Severity of Staph Infections
- Tracking Neural Progenitor Cells in the Human Brain
- Scientists Find New Genetic Alterations in Lung Cancer
- Protein Suppresses Allergic Response in Mice
- Family Members of Patients Who Die in the ICU Report Greater Satisfaction with Communication and Involvement than Family Members of ICU Survivors
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse Offers Summer Internship Opportunities
- NCI Researchers Uncover Unusual Association Between Cell Survival Proteins and Ovarian Cancer Aggressiveness
- Scientists Zero in on the Cellular Machinery that Enables Neurons to Fire
- Statement of Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, on World Diabetes Day
- Lucy Greene Appointed NIDDK Executive Officer
- Brain Matures a Few Years Late in ADHD, But Follows Normal Pattern
- NIH Funds 10 Science Education Partnership Awards
- Diabetes Rates Are Increasing Among Youth
- NCMHD Announces New Director for Scientific Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Pain, Opioids, and Addiction: An Urgent Problem for Doctors and Patients – January 31, 2007
For the first time, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, will bring together the research and clinical practice communities to draw attention to the growing problem of prescription opioid misuse by patients with chronic, nonmalignant pain conditions. Continue reading
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Study Tests Oral Insulin to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes – January 31, 2007
Researchers have begun a clinical study of oral insulin to prevent or delay type 1 diabetes in at-risk people, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today. Continue reading
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New Members Appointed to National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council – January 30, 2007
HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt has appointed three new members to the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council. Another membership change is the ex officio representative to the committee from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Continue reading
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NIH Leads Effort to Help Women in Science and Medicine Fulfill Potential – January 29, 2007
NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni has created the Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers to examine issues raised in the recent National Academies report, “Beyond Bias and Barriers, Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering,” and to respond to the challenges issued to government funding agencies to maximize the potential of women scientists and engineers. Continue reading
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Insight into Ethnic Differences
The gene varieties we inherit and the environment we’ve been raised in work together to shape who we are. But there’s something else involved, according to a new study: how our genes behave. Continue reading
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Genetic Signature Marks Breast Cancer Prognosis
Researchers have identified a unique set of genes?a genetic signature?that may help to spot breast cancers that are more likely to spread or prove deadly. Continue reading
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New Genetic Clue to Alzheimer’s Disease
Variations in a gene known as SORL1 may be a factor in the development of late onset Alzheimer’s disease, an international team of researchers has discovered. Continue reading
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MRI More Sensitive Than CT in Diagnosing Most Common Form of Acute Stroke, Finds NIH Study – January 26, 2007
The difference between MRI and CT was attributable to MRIs superiority for detection of acute ischemic stroke — the most common form of stroke, caused by a blood clot. The study was conducted by physicians at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Continue reading
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MRI More Sensitive Than CT in Diagnosing Most Common Form of Acute Stroke, Finds NIH Study, January 26, 2007
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), “MRI More Sensitive Than CT in Diagnosing Most Common Form of Acute Stroke, Finds NIH Study” January 26, 2007 Continue reading
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The National Institute of Nursing Research Launches Improved Website – January 26, 2007
Access to information about this vital area of science and the programs of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), one of 27 Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health, just got easier with the recent launch of the Institute’s improved website: www.ninr.nih.gov. Continue reading
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