Bird Flu Research Rattles Bioterrorism Field
H5N1 avian flu viruses (seen in gold) grow inside canine kidney cells (seen in green).
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Drug Shortages Affect More Than Half A Million Cancer Patients
Persistent shortages of life-saving drugs led President Obama to issue an executive order last month to try and ease what one...
NIH Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases Program announces next round of drug development projects
Researchers will begin drug development projects for rare and neglected diseases that include potential treatments for a musculoskeletal disorder, a cognitive dysfunction disorder, a virus that affects the central nervous system of newborns, a...
U.S. NIH Sleep Disorders Research Plan seeks to promote and protect sleep health
Building on scientific advances that link sleep problems to health and safety risks, the National Institutes of Health today released the 2011 NIH Sleep Disorders Research Plan.
NIH-funded study shows pre-birth brain growth problems linked to autism
Children with autism have more brain cells and heavier brains compared to typically developing children, according to researchers partly funded by the National Institutes of Health. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Nov....
Switching Neighborhoods May Improve Health
Women encouraged to move with their families from a poor neighborhood to a more affluent one had lower rates of extreme...
Genes and the Brain
Two related studies revealed gene activity in the brains of people of different genders and ethnicities, from fetal development to old...
Annual Chest X-rays Don’t Cut Lung Cancer Deaths
X-ray image shows a growth on the left side of the lung, which could possibly be lung cancer. Image courtesy of NCI.
Why HPV Vaccination Of Boys May Be Easier
Connor Perruccello-McClellan, a senior at Providence Country Day School in...
Second Thoughts On Medicines For Babies Who Spit Up
A nurse burps a baby after he's been fed, circa 1955. Doctors say that for babies with extreme...
