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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the U.S. government agency responsible for biomedical research. As part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH has a two-pronged role: conducting research and funding biomedical research outside of NIH. Research is performed primarily at its main campus in Bethesda and surrounding communities. The National Institute of Aging and the National Institute on Drug Abuse are located in Baltimore. The predecessor of the NIH is the Laboratory of Hygiene, established in 1887. The NIH is composed of 27 separate institutes, centers and the Office of the Director. The current NIH director is Elias Zerhouni. NIH's mission is to acquire new...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the U.S. government agency responsible for biomedical research. As part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH has a two-pronged role: conducting research and funding biomedical research outside of NIH. Research is performed primarily at its main campus in Bethesda and surrounding communities. The National Institute of Aging and the National Institute on Drug Abuse are located in Baltimore. The predecessor of the NIH is the Laboratory of Hygiene, established in 1887. The NIH is composed of 27 separate institutes, centers and the Office of the Director. The current NIH director is Elias Zerhouni. NIH's mission is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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Senior Living: Considering a clinical trial
Q. How do I know if a clinical trial is right for me and my chronic illness?
Participating in a clinical trial can place you in the care of some of the nation's top physicians, and you may find a treatment that works. Naturally, you also are concerned...Tags: Medical Research, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice, Pharmaceuticals
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Group honors research volunteers
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentThe Northern Indiana Cancer Research Consortium is hosting an open celebration of its participants in clinical trials, aimed at raising awareness and recruiting more people to help with research. Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens, an African-American woman who...Tags: Medical Research, Breast Cancer, Blood, Stomach Cancer, Colon Cancer
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Fake, faulty malaria drugs alarmingly common, study finds
World NowMore than one-third of malaria medicines tested in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were fake or faulty, according to a new study that warns shoddy drugs could fuel the rise of hardier parasites.... -
Parents hire own researchers to tackle rare, fatal disease
When it comes to advocating against her 8-year-old son's serious illness, Gelse Tkalec is on a much lonelier path than those strewn with pink ribbons and yellow bracelets. There are only 25 to 30 children worldwide known to have giant axonal neuropathy,...
Tags: Medical Research, Genes and Chromosomes, University of Chicago, Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology
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Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com
May 21, 2012
Q: My school-age children have been sick with colds lately and, because of conflicting information in the news, I'm still unsure about which over-the-counter...Tags: Medical Specialization, Skin, Almonds, Swine Flu, Pneumonia
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Couple ride again for Parseghian Foundation
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentSOUTH BEND -- When three grandchildren of legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC), a fatal neurodegenerative disease, their parents launched an urgent and passionate search for the...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Science and Technology, Science, University of Notre Dame, College Sports
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Coffee linked to lower risk of death
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can't get through the day without a latte, cappuccino, iced mocha, double-shot of espresso or a plain old cuppa joe: That coffee habit may help you live longer. A new study that...Tags: Medical Research, Diabetes, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease, Science and Technology
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Getting Fatter: “The Weight of the Nation” addresses obesity epidemic
Channel Guide MagazineAmericans are truly getting fatter. Obesity is now one of our country's most pressing health issues with more than two-thirds of U.S. adults age 20 and over being either overweight or obese. Equally staggering is the fact that nearly one-third of our... -
Watching TV affects kids' eating habits beyond screen time
Parents may have another reason to limit the amount of television their children watch. Watching TV affects what kids eat even when they are not glued to it, according to results from a study published this month in Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent...
Tags: Medical Research, Television Industry, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Obesity, Science and Technology
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Rod through Phineas Gage's brain caused more damage than thought
This post has been corrected. Please see note at bottom.The tamping rod that blew through Phineas Gage's brain 163 years ago damaged only a small portion of his brain, but it disrupted a much larger proportion of his neural connections, UCLA researchers reported Wednesday. The finding, based on imaging of...Tags: Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of California, Los Angeles
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National strategy on Alzheimer's disease aims to halt it by 2025
Asserting "we are at an exceptional moment" in the hunt for an Alzheimer'sdiseasetreatment, National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins on Tuesday promised a raft of new research aimed at stopping and reversing the memory-robbing disorder...
Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Two paralyzed people successfully use robot arm
After years of work with primates and able-bodied humans, researchers have successfully demonstrated in paralyzed humans that an implanted electrode in the brain can successfully control the movement of a robot arm, allowing the patients to drink and...
Tags: Human Body, Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital
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