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Breast-Fed Preemies Do Better on Skills Tests: Study

Research points up the need to support new mothers' efforts to breast-feed.

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Stressed Dads Can Affect Kids' Development

Fathers make unique contributions, pediatric expert says.

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Tapping Crowd-Sourced Data Unearths a Trove of Depression Genes

Pay-to-play gene typing leveraged for statistical power – NIH-funded study

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Summer Days Shouldn't Be Lazy for Kids

Physical education expert says children should stay active during school vacation.

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4 Out of 5 Kids With Epilepsy Have Other Health Problems: Study

Digestive disorders, headaches, attention-deficit disorder among the common issues.

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Coping With Familial Mental Illness in Stressful Times

“NIH/NIMH lifer” Shares His Asian American Family’s Story of Resilience

Former NIMH Deputy Director and Scientific Director, Dr. Richard Nakamura, recently revealed how his family successfully coped with discrimination compounded by bipolar disorder during trying times for Japanese Americans. In a video interview marking National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, the current director of NIH’s Center for Scientific Review  stressed the critical roles of mutual support and treatment.

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NIH-led researchers develop software that could facilitate drug development

A team of researchers led by a National Institutes of Health investigator, Teresa Przytycka, Ph.D., has developed a new software tool called AptaTRACE that could be an important advance for drug developers and other scientists who want to identify molecules that bind with high precision to targets of interest.

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Eczema's Effects More Than Skin Deep

Itchy skin condition also linked to a number of other ills, skin specialist says

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NIH funds precision medicine research with a focus on health disparities

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, has committed approximately $31 million over five years, pending available funding, to launch a new program for Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers (TCCs) for health disparities research exploring the potential for precision medicine to promote health equity and advance the science of minority health and health disparities.

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Space Travel May Pose Risks to Heart

Exposure to radiation might explain Apollo astronauts' rate of heart problems, researcher says.

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