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Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer.
The Milwaukee-based office of Foley & Lardner LLP says the law firm has received a $208 million contract from the National Institutes of Health.
Calling scientific research a job-creating engine, President Barack Obama heralded $5 billion in new government grants Wednesday to fight cancer, autism and heart disease while boosting the economy.
It's time to test the new swine flu vaccine in pregnant women. Studies of adults and children are going so well that the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday it is opening the research to 120 women in their second or third trimester of pregnancy.
An influential geneticist who wears his faith on his sleeve says that as the new director of the National Institutes of Health he won't inject his religious convictions into medical research while pushing cutting-edge science into better bedside care.
The Senate on Friday confirmed Dr. Francis Collins, a scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code, as director of the National Institutes of Health.
President Barack Obama is choosing an influential scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code — and is known for finding common ground between belief in God and science — to head the National Institutes of Health.
Eeeww. There's a zoo full of critters living on your skin — a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest. Healthy skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than scientists ever knew, says the first big census of our co-inhabitants. And that's not a bad thing, said genetics specialist Julia Segre of the National Institutes of Health, who led the research.
The director of the National Institutes of Health is resigning, after retooling the premiere research agency to spur innovative science while it struggles for sufficient funding.
Dara Torres' swim coach is traveling to the National Institutes of Health instead of training camp in Singapore after being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal blood disorder.
Plans for a large-scale trial of a potential AIDS vaccine are being dropped in favor of a smaller, more focused study, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday.
Lawmakers are questioning why the government waited almost a month to warn 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study that some of their medical records were in a stolen laptop computer.
The government abruptly halted aggressive treatment in a major study of diabetes and heart disease after a surprising number of deaths among patients who pushed their blood sugar to super-lows — findings that call into question a growing movement in diabetes care.
The House on Monday urged health agencies to expand research into postpartum depression problems that affect up to one-fifth of new mothers and can, if untreated, lead to more serious psychoses. Democrats also accepted a GOP-backed provision that approves a National Institutes of Mental Health study into the psychological consequences of abortions.
In a disappointing setback, a promising experimental AIDS vaccine failed to work in a large international test, leading the developer to halt the study. Merck & Co. said Friday that it is ending enrollment and vaccination of volunteers in the study, which was partly funded by the National Institutes of Health.
The U.S. health care system is "a dysfunctional mess" and politicians who insist otherwise look ignorant, according to a medical journal essay by a prominent ethicist at the National Institutes of Health.
Nearly 40 percent of the scientists conducting hands-on research at the National Institutes of Health say they are looking for other jobs or are considering doing so to escape new ethics rules that have curtailed their opportunity to earn outside income.
Rethinking AIDS Strategy After a String of Failures DURBAN, South Africa -- Few cases of AIDS have been as closely scrutinized as that of a former South African prostitute named Beauty. Scientists know when this 40-year-old woman became infected, how her body responded and what happened as her immune system collapsed.
Genes may predict disease progression in AIDSTwo crucial genes have a big effect on how HIV progresses in a patient. The genes control how the immune system responds to infection.
HIV Vaccine Hopeful FailsThe first of a new class of HIV vaccine candidates was unable to slow down the virus, leading investigators to stop a clinical trial taking place throughout the Americas (including the Dominican Republic, where these blood samples were taken).
The ExxonMobil Protection AgencyExxonMobil Staffer Peer Reviewed EPA HazMat Rule
Football's $1,000 HelmetComing soon to a worried parent near you: a sales pitch for a $1,000 football helmet that can monitor the precise location and severity of impacts to little Johnny's head.
Wow! Fear Of New World Order Is Now A Recognized Mental Illness This study conclusively demonstrates that unfounded fear of government is a recognizable mental illness, closely related to paranoid schizophrenia. Anti-Government Phobia (AGP) differs from most mental illnesses, however, in that it is highly infectious and has an acute onset.
National Academy of Sciences Publishes Study - Pesticides Reduce YieldsAs a fan of organic methods and vocal opponent of chemically intensive farming, I'm always thrilled to hear that the natural methods even tie but the National Academy of Science Published Study finds, (drum roll please,)...
Brain 'Pacemaker' Tickles Your Happy NerveVNS has been used for 10 years to treat epilepsy, where it can cut the number of seizures for some patients by about 40 percent.
Biology Goes Open SourceSome of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away.
Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV virusWhile there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely with the flick of a genetic switch.
20 Ways the World Could End - - science news articles online technology magazine articles 20 Ways the World Could EndA clever look at what could eventually do us all in. My personal favorite is number 20. Give it a once over.
2006 was a Year Full of Fights and Friction in the World of ScienceThe recent petition signed by literally thousands of scientists protesting against the Bush administration's faith-based meddling in science, science funding and faulty use of findings caps off what was an unusually tumultous year for the science world
Sins and consumptions of the parents...ScienCentral Video News: Inherited PollutionPollution, toxins and medications all linked as a cause of hereditary problems in generations of laboratory rats without any evident change in their DNA coding.
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