Two commonly used uveitis drugs perform similarly in NIH-funded clinical trial
Uveitis is inflammation of the eye originating in the uvea, which includes the...
NIH partners with Apple and Harvard University on Women’s Health Study
The National Institutes of Health, Apple, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health announced their research partnership for a major long-term study of women’s health. The collaboration will permit researchers to study conditions including...
One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds: new UN health agency report
A portrait of a patient at a mental health hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.
PAHO Supports Bahamas Response with Emergency Medical Teams
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is focusing on clinical care to save the lives of persons who survived the hurricane and keeping people safe, with three Emergency Medical Teams arriving in the Bahamas,...
Suicide: one person dies every 40 seconds
The number of countries with national suicide prevention strategies has increased in the five years since the publication of WHO’s first global report on suicide, said the World Health Organization in the lead-up to World Suicide Prevention Day on 10...
NIAID officials call for innovative research on sexually transmitted infections
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, which causes gonorrhea.
Scientists triple storage time of human donor livers
Scientists have greatly extended the amount of time human livers can be stored for transplantation by modifying a previous protocol to extend the viability of rat livers. Previously, human livers were only viable for an average of nine hours, but the...
Initial State Findings Point to Clinical Similarities in Illnesses Among People Who Use E-cigarettes
Initial findings from the investigation into serious lung illnesses associated with e-cigarette products point to clinical similarities among those affected. Patients report similar exposures, symptoms and clinical findings and these align with the...
Racial and Ethnic Disparities Continue in Pregnancy-Related Deaths
Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women – and this disparity increases with age, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (...
Accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer: WHO
World Health Organization urged countries in its South-East Asia Region to accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer by 2030.
