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03/05/08		NIH Receives Gates Foundation Grant to Investigate Role of Iron Supplements in Malaria
Do iron supplements worsen the course of malaria? Researchers aren’t sure, and the uncertainty has jeopardized efforts to treat the debilitating effects of iron deficiency in parts of the world where malaria and other infectious diseases are common.

10/25/07		NIH Public Trust Initiative Launches the Partners in Research Program
The Public Trust Initiative (PTI), an initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announces the release of a new Request for Applications (RFA) for the Partners in Research program.

10/04/07		NIH Announces Addition of 22 New Study Centers in National Children's Study
The National Children’s Study announced today that it awarded contracts in late September to 22 new study centers to manage participant recruitment and data collection in 26 additional communities across the United States. Funding for the new study centers and the study’s initial phase is a result of a $69 million appropriation from Congress in fiscal year 2007.

10/02/07		Transcript of National Children's Study Media Briefing - October 4, 2007
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the National Children’s Study Conference Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session. Instructions will be given at that time. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

03/02/07		National Children's Study Seeks Proposals for New Study Centers
The National Children's Study has issued a request for proposals to award contracts to up to 20 new study centers. These centers will manage operations in up to a total of 30 communities across the United States.

10/05/06		Drug Prevents PostPartum Hemorrhage in Resource Poor Settings Advance Has Potential to Save Thousands of Lives
The drug misoprostol provides a safe, convenient, and inexpensive means to prevent postpartum hemorrhage, a major killer of women in developing countries. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Missouri, India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, and the National Institutes of Health.

09/29/05		National Children's Study Seeks to Explain African American Child Health Disparities
African Americans make up a substantial percentage of the nation's population. (Population projections can be found on the U.S. Census Web site in Table 1a at http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-5.pdf.)

09/29/05		National Children's Study Seeks to Explain Hispanic Child Health Disparities
Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the country, and by 2050, one of every four Americans will be Hispanic. (Population projections can be found on the U.S. Census Web site in Table 1a at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/usinterimproj/natprojtab01a.pdf.)

09/29/05		National Children's Study Seeks to Explain Native American Child Health Disparities
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that there are approximately 2.5 million American Indians in the United States, constituting 0.9 percent of the total population, and that they live primarily in the West, Southwest, and Midwest. Modest growth of these communities is predicted in the next few decades (http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-15.pdf).

09/29/05		NICHD Announces Contracts to First Research Centers for Planned National Children's Study
The National Children's Study-planned to be the largest study ever undertaken to assess the effects of the environment on child and adult health-took a major step forward today with the announcement that contracts have been awarded to 6 Vanguard Centers to pilot and complete the first phases of the Study.

09/29/05		Remarks of Duane Alexander, M.D., Director, Announcement of Vanguard Centers
Good afternoon. Welcome and thank you for coming. I'd like to thank the United States Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Richard Carmona for being with us today.

09/29/05		Remarks of Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, Announcement of Vanguard Centers
Thank you, Dr. Alexander. I'm happy to be here today as we embark upon the promise of the National Children's Study. As you mentioned, the 2005 agenda of the Office of the Surgeon General can be summed up in six words: "The Year of The Healthy Child."

04/07/05		NICHD Launches Project to Treat Infant Asphyxia In Lower Income Countries
Scientists in a federally sponsored global research network will undertake a new project that will train midwives and traditional birth attendants in resource poor countries on how to treat newborn asphyxia, a major cause of infant death. The treatment, developed in the United States, is the standard of care provided to infants born in this country.

08/23/04		Depo Provera Appears to Increase Risk for Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infections
The injectable contraceptive depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) appears to increase a woman's risk of acquiring the sexually transmitted infections chlamydia and gonorrhea by approximately three fold when compared to women not using a hormonal contraceptive, according to a study jointly funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Population and Reproductive Health.

12/12/03		Media Availability for the National Children's Study Assembly Meeting
Media availability with leading health and environment officials to provide the latest information on the development of the National Children's Study, a groundbreaking, long-term research project to examine the environmental influences on children's health and development.

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