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1. Medicare – NIA Funds Centers to Study Demography of Aging The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced that it has committed more than $36.7 million over the next five years to support and expand its Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging. The Centers form a network of universities and organizations leading innovative studies on the characteristics of the aging population. The awards, which include some support from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, renewed support for 11 Centers and established three new ones....
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3. Image description: Happy 237th Birthday, U.S. Army! Image description: Happy 237th Birthday, U.S. Army! From the Army: Two hundred and thirty-seven years ago, our Nation’s leaders established the Continental Army, beginning a rich heritage of successfully defending this great country and her citizens. Today, we celebrate the continued honor, loyalty and bravery of our Soldiers in this noble calling. Our Soldiers remain […]...
4. Image description: This microphotograph, pictured next to a… Slide containing the microphotograph The image on the microphotograph Image description: This microphotograph, pictured next to a penny to show the scale, is only 1 millimeter wide and possibly the smallest image the Library of Congress owns. When magnified, you can see people standing in front of a building, a mental hospital. It was taken in […]...
5. Top 3 Things Not to Carry On Your Flight Airline travel has gotten so complicated.  Security lines are long; there are extra fees for baggage; adults need to keep out their federal or state-issued ID through the checkpoint; and there are restrictions on what can be carried onto the flight.  The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) website is the first place to go to find […]...
6. TSA Blog and “Secure Flight” Visit the TSA Blog to join the discussion on the checkpoint screening process at American airports. One of the current topics is Secure Flight, a program intended to enhance security and reduce the risk of watch list misidentification. Find out how Secure Flight will affect you....
7. HHS Awards $17 Million in a New National Initiative to Fight Health Care-Associated Infections October 23, 2009 HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the award of $17 million to fund projects to fight costly and dangerous health care-associated infections, or HAIs. “When patients go to the hospital, they expect to get better, not worse,” Secretary Sebelius said. “Eliminating infections is critical to making care safer for patients and to […]...
8. Commissioned study identifies gaps in funding success rates for black researchers Black applicants from 2000-2006 were 10 percentage points less likely than white applicants to be awarded research project grants from the National Institutes of Health after controlling for factors that influence the likelihood of a grant award, according to an NIH-commissioned study in the journal Science. In an accompanying commentary, NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., […]...
9. Department of Health work together to find new approaches to deter HIV/AIDS The D.C. Partnership for HIV/AIDS Progress is laying groundwork necessary to stem the rate of new HIV infections in the city, improve the health of district residents living with HIV and strengthen the city’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The D.C. Partnership for HIV/AIDS Progress, launched in 2010, is a collaboration between the National Institutes […]...
10. Medicare Card: National Eye Institute Hosts Translational Research and Vision Symposium The National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, is bringing together premier researchers who translate molecular and genetic approaches from the laboratory to visual system diseases in the clinic....
11. Medicare Researchers Discover How Folate Promotes Healing In Spinal Cord Injuries The vitamin folate appears to promote healing in damaged rat spinal cord tissue by triggering a change in DNA, according to a laboratory study funded by the National Institutes of Health....
12. Medicare, Vitamin D shrinks fibroid tumors in rats Treatment with vitamin D reduced the size of uterine fibroids in laboratory rats predisposed to developing the benign tumors, reported researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health....
13. Optogenetics project takes top NIDA Addiction Science Award A project that maps dopamine circuits in the prefrontal cortex through optogenetic manipulation was given top honors in this year’s annual Addiction Science Awards at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) — the world’s largest science competition for high school students. The awards were presented by the National Institute on Drug Abuse […]...
14. NIH Grantee Wins 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry The 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantee Ei-ichi Negishi, Ph.D., of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Negishi shares the award with Richard F. Heck, Ph.D., of the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware and Akira Suzuki, Ph.D., of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. The three researchers […]...
15. NIH remembers Dr. Franklin A. Neva Franklin A. Neva, M.D., a renowned virologist, parasitologist, clinician and former chief of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, died on Oct. 15, 2011. He was 89 years old....