Silent Heart Attack

Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has appointed Lucy Greene associate director for management, NIDDK.

In youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the brain matures in a normal pattern but is delayed three years in some regions, on average, compared to youth without the disorder, an imaging study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has revealed.

Promoting science careers in rural and underserved populations; using interactive museum exhibits to explain the genetic factors of health; and disseminating an HIV/AIDS documentary by inner-city high school students are just some of the new ways the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is increasing the public’s understanding of biomedical research.

To help young people diagnosed with diabetes and their parents, the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is introducing a new series of tip sheets and an online quiz specially created for teens to help them manage their disease and reduce their risk for complications. NDEP is jointly sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Internationally renowned public health administrator and health policy advisor to four U.S. Administrations Ileana Collado Herrell, Ph.D., has been appointed as the new director, Division of Scientific Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is calling for applications for 2008 NIH Director’s Pioneer and New Innovator Awards.

Newly described proteins in drug-resistant strains of the “Staphylococcus aureus” bacterium attract and then destroy protective human white blood cells — a key process ensuring that S. aureus survives and causes severe disease, according to scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

In recognition of his contributions to the field of tobacco research,
David Abrams, Ph.D., director of the Office of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Research (OBSSR), in the Office of the Director, at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the recipient of the 2008
Joseph W. Cullen Memorial Award from the American Society for Preventive
Oncology (ASPO).

Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will be speaking at New York City’s 92nd Street Y, as part of its Science and Discovery discussion series.

A growing number of Americans have chronic kidney disease, but most remain unaware of it, hampering efforts to prevent irreversible kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and published November 7 in the “Journal of the American Medical Association”.