Probiotic skin therapy improves eczema in children, NIH study suggests
Inner elbow of a child with eczema before Roseomonas mucosa therapy (left) and after four months of treatment (right)....
Study shows decline in awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure
After nearly 15 years on an upward trend, awareness among Americans about high blood pressure and how to control and treat it is now on the decline, according to a new study. Even with the help of blood pressure medications, some groups, including...
Miglustat improves swallowing in children and adolescents with Niemann-Pick type C1 disease
The drug miglustat appears to stabilize the swallowing problems that occur in children and adolescents with Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1), a rare and ultimately fatal neurological disease, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes...
Investments in public health, an investment in safer future, urges Tedros
Nurses at a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, exchange documents through acrylic shields that...
NIH continues to boost national COVID-19 testing capacity
The National Institutes of Health Sept. 2 announced $129.3 million in scale-up and manufacturing support for a new set of COVID-19 testing technologies as part of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative. NIH is awarding contracts to...
World's richest countries grappling with children’s reading and math skills, mental well-being and obesity
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COVID-19 impact on treatment for chronic illness revealed
A blood glucose test is used to check the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood of a pregnant...
In WHO global pulse survey, 90% of countries report disruptions to essential health services since COVID-19 pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) Aug.,31 published a first indicative survey on the impact of COVID-19 on health systems based on 105 countries’ reports. Data collected from five regions over the period from March to June 2020 illustrate that...
CDC’s Tips® campaign led 1 million U.S. adults to quit smoking during 2012–2018
Findings from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study show that CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers® (Tips®) campaign led more than 1 million U.S. adults to quit smoking and an estimated 16.4 million U.S. adults to attempt to quit smoking...
New gene associated with reduced risk for cirrhosis
An international team of scientists supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has identified a novel association between the gene FAF2 and a reduced risk for alcohol-...
