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During this period when parts of the nation are experiencing record high temperatures, SAMHSA is reminding everyone that these conditions can pose certain health risk to everyone – including people with mental and substance use disorders.

One of the basic elements of cognition — the ability to estimate quantities — grows more precise across the first 30 years or more of a person’s life, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Hot summer weather can pose special health risks to older adults. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has some advice for helping older people avoid heat-related illnesses, known as hyperthermia.

From left to right: Pelvic organ prolapse before surgery, pelvic organ prolapsed after surgical correction, and corrected pelvic organ prolapse with urethral sling.Illustrations courtesy of Jasmine Tan-Kim, M.D.

An intervention in which adults actively engaged the attention of preschool children with autism by pointing to toys and using other gestures to focus their attention results in a long term increase in language skills, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Adding the drug nevirapine to the regimen given to newborns of women diagnosed with HIV shortly before or during labor halves the newborns' risk of contracting the virus, according to findings by a National Institutes of Health research network.