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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: February 2007
Papers of Rosalind Franklin Added to the National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science Website – February 6, 2007
The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, announces the release of an extensive selection from the papers of Rosalind Franklin, a chemist and crystallographer who did ground breaking work in shedding light on the structure of DNA, on its Profiles in Science website at http://www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov.
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NCI Scientists Discover How T-Cell Leukemia Viruses Evade Body’s Defense Mechanisms – February 5, 2007
National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientists have discovered how human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), which infects about 20 million people worldwide, evades being held in check by one of the body’s natural defense mechanisms. Continue reading
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Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness and Information Day February 7, 2007 – February 5, 2007
On February 7th, we commemorate the seventh annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness and Information Day. This day of recognition reminds us of the devastation that HIV/AIDS continues to inflict on African American communities. Continue reading
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MRI Tops CT in Early Stroke Diagnosis
A new study suggests that MRI gives a more accurate early assessment of stroke than the more commonly used CT. Continue reading
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Brain Damage May Make Smokers “Forget” to Smoke
Some smokers with damage to a part of the brain called the insula may have their addiction to nicotine practically eliminated, according to a new study. Continue reading
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Inhaled Steroids Best Treatment for Children With Asthma
A new study testing the effectiveness and safety of three different asthma medicines found that inhaled corticosteroids are the most effective for children with mild to moderate persistent asthma. Continue reading
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Brain’s Reward Circuit Activity Ebbs and Flows with a Woman’s Hormonal Cycle – February 2, 2007
Fluctuations in sex hormone levels during women’s menstrual cycles affect the responsiveness of their brains’ reward circuitry, an imaging study at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has revealed. Continue reading
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Common Blood Pressure Drug Reduces Progressive Muscle Degeneration in Mice – February 2, 2007
Scientists supported in part by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have found that that the commonly prescribed blood pressure medication losartan improves muscle regeneration and repair in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) Continue reading
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Heart Disease Deaths in American Women Decline – February 1, 2007
New York — The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health announced today that the number of heart disease deaths in American women is decreasing. Continue reading
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Improving Communication in the ICU about End-of-Life Care in the ICU Reduces Symptoms of Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in Family Members – February 1, 2007
The study, funded in part by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), showed that this intervention also allows family members to express their emotions and arrive at a more realistic expectation of the outcome. Continue reading
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