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May 2008 - Posts
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Senators Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) and Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) will visit the National Institutes of Health’s Biomedical Research Center (BRC) on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus in Baltimore, Maryland on Monday, June 2, 2008.
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People with schizophrenia from families with no history of the illness were found to harbor eight times more spontaneous mutations — most in pathways affecting brain development — than healthy controls, in a study supported in part the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
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An update of the evidence on this topic produced by the NLH Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist Library
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An update of the evidence on this topic produced by the NLH Women's Health Specialist Library
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By manipulating the number of copies of the MECP2 gene in mice,
the authors of the new study found that it controls thousands of
other genes, suppressing some, but activating most. The research
was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke (NINDS) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), both part of NIH.
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Fourteen academic health centers in 11 states are the latest members of the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) consortium. Creating a unique network of medical research institutions across the nation, the consortium is working to reduce the time it takes for laboratory discoveries to become treatments for patients and to engage communities in clinical research efforts. It also is fulfilling the critical need to train the next generation of clinical and translational researchers. The consortium is led by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the NIH.
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health, will convene a 2-day conference to explore how the latest scientific findings in drug abuse can fill the current gap between research and clinical treatment practices.
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Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced his intention to step down on August 1 to explore writing projects and other professional opportunities.
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Scientists have identified a mechanism in the brain that helps to explain why craving for cocaine, and the risk of relapse, seems to increase in the weeks and months after drug use is stopped. The research was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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A research team led by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has applied advanced imaging methods and computer simulations to be able to glance at the regulation of a cancer-related gene in a living cell. They found that the efficiency with which the components of the cell’s gene reading machinery come together has an impact on gene expression, the process by which a gene translates its information into a new protein. The findings, published in the May 23, 2008 issue of "Molecular Cell", shed new light on the means by which living cells regulate gene activity.
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Reducing early blockages in bloodstream access for kidney failure treatment does not increase the likelihood that the access will function adequately for long-term treatments, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Results were published May 14, 2008, in the "
Journal of the American Medical Association".
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No significant difference in death rates or other outcomes was found between a group of patients with acute kidney injury that received intensive dialysis and another group that received a more standard regimen of dialysis, according to a joint Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) study published in the June issue of the "New England Journal of Medicine".
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Researchers analyzing changes in smoking behavior over the past three decades within a large social network found smokers quit in groups and not as isolated individuals. Those who continued to smoke also formed clusters that, over time, shifted from the center of the social network, where social connections are more numerous, to the periphery of the group. The report, appearing in the May 22, 2008, "New England Journal of Medicine" and funded primarily by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the NIH, could play a role in developing clinical and public health interventions to reduce and prevent smoking.
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To advance underdeveloped approaches to designing a preventive HIV vaccine, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, is launching a new program to foster the study of B cells, immune cells that can produce antibodies with the capacity to neutralize HIV.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced a new clinical research program that will aim to provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis. Called the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, the trans-NIH initiative will focus on the most puzzling medical cases referred to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., by physicians across the nation.
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
part of the National Institutes of Health, joins with Asians and
Pacific Islanders in mourning the members of this community who
have died from AIDS and in commending those who provide HIV/AIDS
prevention services and who care for people living with HIV.
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Three new members to the National Advisory Council for Nursing
Research (NACNR), the principal advisory board for the National
Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), were announced today. The
advisory council meets three times a year to provide recommendations
on the conduct and support of biomedical, social, and behavioral
research that provides an evidence base for nursing practice. NINR,
one of the National Institutes of Health, supports clinical and
basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of
individuals across the lifespan.
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Scientists have developed the first genetically altered monkey
model that replicates some symptoms observed in patients with Huntington's
disease, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes
of Health.
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This year's HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
provides us with an opportunity to renew and strengthen our commitment
here at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to finding a safe
and effective HIV vaccine that will slow, and hopefully one day
end, the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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An update of the evidence on this topic produced by the NLH Oral Health Specialist Library
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Teleconference to discuss new trans-NIH clinical research program and its anticipated service to the medical community and patients from across the United States.
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A popular series of curriculum supplements from the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) aimed at promoting science education achievement
is now aligned to individual state education standards in science,
math, health and English language arts for kindergarten through
the 12th grade.
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the nation’s
principal supporter of food allergy research.
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Scientists at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a part of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), demonstrate for the first time in a mouse model that
skeletal muscle cells cultured in a low-calorie environment refrain
from differentiating, an energy-demanding process by which cells
mature and specialize.
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An update of the evidence on this topic from the ENT and Adiology Specialsit Library.
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This year, for the first time, three students will receive awards for exemplary projects in Addiction Science at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world's largest science competition for high school students. The Addiction Science award is co-sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company.
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Pregnant women with blood sugar levels in the higher range of normal -- but not high enough to be considered diabetes -- are more likely than women with lower blood sugar levels to give birth to babies at risk for many of the same problems seen in babies born to women with diabetes during pregnancy, according to a study funded in large part by the National Institutes of Health.
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The first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus
was published today by an international team of scientists, revealing
clues about how genomes were organized during the early evolution
of mammals. The research was supported in part by the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH).
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How should you eat as you get older? Which foods are likely to
keep you most healthy and which ones should you limit? Is it possible
to eat well and stay within a healthy weight? These and other questions
are addressed in "Eating Well as You Get Older," the latest topic
to be added to NIHSeniorHealth, the health and wellness Web site
developed by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National
Library of Medicine (NLM), both part of the National Institutes
of Health.
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Major mental disorders cost the nation at least $193 billion annually
in lost earnings alone, according to a new study funded by the
National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH).
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The best available treatment for chronic kidney disease from high
blood pressure did not keep the disease from substantially worsening
in about a fourth of African-Americans studied, according to long-term
results of a National Institutes of Health study published April
28, 2008, in the "Archives of Internal Medicine".
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Researchers from 11 medical centers in the United States,
Canada, Sweden, and Norway have begun testing new approaches to
transplanting clusters of insulin-producing islets in adults with
difficult-to-control type 1 diabetes. The clinical studies,
funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will determine
whether changes to current methods of islet transplantation lead
to improved, long-lasting control of blood glucose with fewer side
effects.
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An update of the evidence on this topic produced by the NLH Complementary & Alternative Medicine Specialist Library
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An update of the evidence on this topic produced by the NLH Cancer and Skin Disorders Specialist Libraries
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By activating a cancer suppressor gene, a small molecule called
nutlin-3a can block cancer cell division, according to researchers
at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes
of Health.
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An intensive educational program for physicians and midwives involving
19 hospitals in Argentina and Uruguay dramatically reduced the
rate of postpartum hemorrhage, according to researchers from the
National Institutes of Health and other institutions.
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Grant Information
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This Web site was made possible in part by NIH Grant Number R43 DK70418
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