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NIH Radio Archive
July 2008 Audio Reports
Parental abuse during childhood increases the risk of involvement
with the juvenile justice system, according to a study funded
by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The National Cancer Institute's Center to Reduce Cancer Health
Disparities hosted the 2008 Cancer Health Disparities Summit.
For smokers, kicking the habit is a hard thing to do. Though odds are smokers are not alone in making the move.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was honored by President George W. Bush with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony recently.
A study showed that when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as improvisation, a large region of the brain involved in monitoring performance is shut down, while a small region involved in organizing self-initiated thoughts and behaviors is highly active.
Two recent studies offer insights into preventing early death and HIV among breastfeeding infants of mothers with the virus in poor countries.
Recently, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH, was renamed at a ceremony on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland to honor Eunice Kennedy Shriver. ![]() FREE MP3 audio reports from the National Institutes of Health, your reliable health information source. Questions? Contact: This page was last reviewed on
September 26, 2008.
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