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| Tanzanian 'Children of the Moon' Bring Rare Brand
Of Sunshine to NIH |
| By Jennifer Wenger |
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Contributing to the successful
treatment of Ally's cancer were
NIDCD research nurse practitioner
Susan Rudy, Dr. Carter VanWaes
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Dr. Kenneth Kraemer still seems a little amazed
at what some NIH staff and a few notable others were able to pull
off this past summer. As the NCI scientist sits at his desk — his
computer monitor displaying a thematic backdrop of sub-Saharan
Africa's zebras and shorebirds — he recounts the compelling
tale of how two young boys blinded with xeroderma pigmentosum,
or XP, traveled from their rural village in Tanzania to NIH to
receive medical testing, treatment, and, for one of them, life-saving
surgery.
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'Taking Our Own Best Advice'
Policy Envisions a Tobacco-Free NIH |
| By Marcia Doniger |
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To smoke or not to smoke? At NIH, it's quickly becoming a matter
of policy.
Each year, some 440,000 people die prematurely of diseases caused
by smoking. In addition, 38,000 die from secondhand smoke-related
illnesses, according to recent studies. In an effort to reverse
these statistics and improve the health and well being of employees,
former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson announced a year ago that the
entire department would become tobacco-free. Because NIH has buildings
both on and off campus and is unique in other ways (the Clinical
Center hosts a certain percentage of patients who prefer to smoke,
for example), the agency is working to overcome the many obstacles
to meeting its goal of full compliance.
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