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FDA: limit antibiotics given to animals
April 13, 2012 | WTTG FOX 5 Washington, DC

Woman's Doc: How To Remedy Poor Sleep
April 09, 2012 | WBAL NBC 11 Baltimore MD

Women and heart attacks
February 22, 2012 | WTNH ABC 8 New Haven

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical research. The Institutes are responsible for 28%—about $28 billion—of the total biomedical research funding spent annually in the U.S., with most of the rest coming from industry...

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NIH study finds that coffee drinkers have lower risk of death
May 21, 2012
May 16, 2012 - Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee, according a...

Obama administration presents national plan to fight Alzheimer’s disease
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012 - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released an ambitious national plan to fight Alzheimer's disease. The plan was called...

NIH encourages Americans to make healthy vision last a lifetime
April 30, 2012
April 30, 2012 - Vision changes as people get older, but vision loss is not a normal part of aging. Common eye diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy,...

Research!America says budget negotiations heighten urgency to protect research funding
April 20, 2012
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2012 – Research!America Chair John Edward Porter says federal budget negotiations heighten urgency to protect research funding in tight...

Arsenic turns stem cells cancerous, spurring tumor growth
April 04, 2012
April 4, 2012 - Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered how exposure to arsenic can turn normal stem cells into cancer stem cells and...

Health and medicine conference encourages revolt
April 16, 2012
Revolutions seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days. But the uprising launched this week at the TEDMED medical conference in Washington, DC just might be the most...

Other local news reports

Scientists discover tool that uncrosses chromosomes
April 12, 2012 | UC Davis News
The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health. Hunter is an early career scientist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. ...

Protein structures give disease clues
February 01, 2012 | UC Davis News
Ames, David Sacks at the National Institutes of Health ... Additional authors of the Journal of Biological Chemistry paper: Yonghong Zhang, UC Davis, and Zhigang Li, National Institutes of Health ... Support came from the National Institutes of Health ...

UC Davis research funds pass $ 684 million
October 06, 2011 | UC Davis News
$20 million from the National Institutes of Health for five additional years of funding... $2.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to study links between Alzheimer's...

R- loops break walls of gene silencing
March 01, 2012 | UC Davis News
The National Institutes of Health and the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research supported the project. ...

From around the web

< b> Alzheimer's: Clock ticking with new plan to fight disease
May 15, 2012 | indystar.com
The National Institutes of Health ... '' There's a sense of optimism'' thanks to some new discoveries, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told...

U. S. Sen. Chuck Grassley's questionnaire, as answered by his staff
May 06, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
In direct response to this exposure, the National Institutes of Health, which distributes $32 billion in federal research dollars every year, proposed new disclosure...

Brain- Computer Bypasses Spinal Cord Injuries
May 04, 2012 | DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from the workshops and minds of geeks, makers, and hackers @ Make: Online, the MAKE magazine blog Page not found
Researchers create brain-computer interface that bypasses spinal cord injury paralysis @ ExtremeTech: Scientists at Northwestern University in Chicago, with funding from the National Institutes of Health ...

I am a guy with a rare sexual illness. Its so life-ruining that one sufferer of it...
March 27, 2012 | reddit.com: what's new online
We've managed to get POIS listed in the most respected rare disease databases - The National Institutes of Health in the USA and Orphanet in Europe and have done much to raise...

Iowan played role in study of meth babies
March 20, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
The National Institutes of Health paid for the research, including a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Previous studies had found neurological changes in the...

Amazon And The NIH Team Up To Put Human Genome In The Cloud
March 29, 2012 | TechCrunch
Amazon and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that the complete 1000 Genomes Project is being made available on Amazon Web Services as a public data...

National Institutes Of Health on twitter

	LongView International Technology Solutions Awarded $20 Billion Multi-Award ...: LongView was selected as one of... http://t.co/B9YVQp4E Twitter: @kmwestphal
	NIH funds #cocaine #addiction study to investigate how #treatment affects use patterns at Univ. of Miami: http://t.co/DPbUe8zH Twitter: @RecoveryInst
	LongView International Technology Solutions Awarded $20 Billion Multi-Award ... http://t.co/q3ALFsgS Twitter: @PharmaSi
	RT @MicrobeWorld: How Staph Bacteria Gain Resistance to Last-Line Drug: National Institutes of Health-funded scientists have deter... http://t.co/RXhenT8D Twitter: @lindao7009
	RT @Progeria: Did you catch Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health talking with Sam about Progeria? http://t.co/LHKXeEBf Twitter: @rkolberg
	RT @MicrobeWorld: How Staph Bacteria Gain Resistance to Last-Line Drug: National Institutes of Health-funded scientists have deter... http://t.co/RXhenT8D Twitter: @MariSmits

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Jill Sobule and Francis Collins at TEDMED 2012
May 17, 2012

National Institutes of Health | Overview
December 22, 2010

A Conversation with the National Institutes of Health at CROI 2011
March 04, 2011

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