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A newly-updated book called Alzheimer's Disease: Unraveling
the Mystery is now available from the National Institute on Aging.
A mechanism in the body which typically helps a person heal from an injury, may actually be causing patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to get worse, researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and their collaborators have found.
Parkinson's disease occurs most often among the elderly and the risk increases with age.
Management of hepatitis B is a challenge for physicians and patients due to an incomplete understanding of the disease course, complex treatment indications, and the lack of large studies focusing on important health outcomes.
Forty-seven scientists have won funding from the National Institutes of Health worth some 138-million dollars over five years..
As obesity rates in children continue to soar, type 2 diabetes, a disease that used to be seen primarily in adults over age 45, is now being diagnosed in young people. Being overweight increases the risk for type 2 diabetes.
In a National Cancer Institute study, researchers have discovered clues about how cancer cells develop resistance to chemotherapy.
Obesity is a serious health problem in America today. People suffering from this condition find themselves at increased risk for a variety of ailments, such as Type 2 Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer — not to mention the increased costs of health care throughout the lifespan. Researchers at the NIH Clinical Center are constantly seeking new and better ways to combat this national epidemic.
New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans closer to the turn of the century, not during the 1930s, as previously reported.
Nearly 24 percent of U.S. women are affected with one or more pelvic floor disorders according to a National Institutes of Health study.
Researchers have found that the brain's reward-circuit activity mostly ebbs as we age.
Urologic pelvic pain disorders such as interstitial cystitis
and chronic prostatis have been assumed to be bladder and prostate
problems. However, no other causes have been identified and there
is no uniformly effective treatment for either disorder. Two newer atypical antipsychotic medications were no more effective than an older conventional antipsychotic for treating schizophrenia in children and adolescents according to a new study. 
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