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January 2006 Audio Reports
Saying that encouraging independent inquiry by promising new investigators is a major goal for the National Institutes of Health, NIH Director Doctor Elias A. Zerhouni has announced the NIH Pathway to Independence Award Program.
During cold weather, parents often place extra blankets or clothes on their infants to provide additional warmth. That places an infant at an increased risk of SIDS.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is featured on www.NIHSeniorHealth.gov.
A recent study in mice, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, suggests that Alzheimer's disease may be triggered when adult neurons try to divide.
According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, approximately one-third of the adult population is obese and less than half of American adults are at a healthy weight.
The National Cancer Institute announces that after a series of trials comparing chemotherapy treatment, they recommend treating advanced ovarian cancer by delivering anticancer drugs via two methods — by IV and directly into the abdomen after surgery.
A protein that seems to be pivotal in lifting depression has been discovered by a Nobel Laureate researcher funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
A major component of soy, known as "genistein", has been shown to disrupt the development of ovaries in newborn female lab mice.
Initial results of the nation's largest clinical trial for depression have helped clinicians to track "real world" patients who became symptom-free and to identify those who were resistant to the initial treatment.
By the time they reach early adulthood, a large proportion of American youth have already begun the poor health practices that lead to three leading causes of preventable death.
A recent study by the National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences has shown that laboratory mice exposed to high fat diets and fine particle air pollution are predisposed to atherosclerosis.
Information about osteoporosis added to NIH Senior Health website.
A major study funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases shows that women with lupus are able to take oral contraceptives without an increased risk of flare-ups.
Your personal risk of having a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack, stroke, or peripheral artery disease might be raised by as much as 45 percent if you are middle-aged and have a brother or sister who has experienced such an event.
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NIH Director Announces the "Pathway to Independence Awards" Program