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Public Release: 20-Nov-2009

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Parent training complements medication for treating behavioral problems in children with PDD
Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

Public Release: 19-Nov-2009

Science
New findings suggest strategy to help generate HIV-neutralizing antibodies
New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper co-authored by scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

NIH/National Insitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
NIEHS awards Recovery Act funds to focus more research on health and safety of nanomaterials
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to tiny particles that are used in many everyday products such as sunscreens, cosmetics and electronics. The NIEHS will award about $13 million over a two-year period, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to bolster the NIEHS's ongoing research portfolio in the area of engineered nanomaterials.

NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Public Release: 17-Nov-2009

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2009
Highlights of NHLBI-supported research presented at American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions
New education strategies for better controlling hypertension and research suggesting a possible link between short-term and long-term exposure to air pollution and increased risk of constricted blood vessels are among the research highlights from studies supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the American Heart Association's 2009 Scientific Sessions in Orlando held Nov. 14-18.

NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
NIH awards $8.5 million for research on pharmaceuticals for children
Studying drugs in pediatric populations is challenging because drugs often affect children differently than they do adults. The scarcity of pediatric studies limits the ability of doctors and scientists to predict drug dosing, safety and efficacy in children. To address this gap, the National Institutes of Health announced today 18 grants to help determine outcome measures and increase the likelihood of success of future trials of treatments for children.

NIH/National Center for Research Resources

Public Release: 17-Nov-2009

British Medical Journal
Study finds link between preeclampsia and reduced thyroid function
Women who experience preeclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy, may have an increased risk for reduced thyroid functioning later in life, report a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 16-Nov-2009

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Immune system of healthy adults may be better prepared than expected to fight 2009 H1N1 influenza
A new study shows that molecular similarities exist between the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus and other strains of seasonal H1N1 virus that have been circulating in the population since 1988. These results suggest that healthy adults may have a level of protective immune memory that can blunt the severity of infection caused by the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.

NIH/National Insitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 12-Nov-2009
NIAID announces new award to study the effects of radiation and aging on the human immune system
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded nearly $9.7 million over five years to the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan, to study the effects of atomic bomb radiation and aging on the human immune system.

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 10-Nov-2009

NIH Symposium to Mark Designation of Genetic Code as National Historic Chemical Landmark
NIH symposium to mark designation of genetic code as National Historic Chemical Landmark
A day-long symposium will be held at the National Institutes of Health, Thursday, Nov. 12, to mark the American Chemical Society's designation of the deciphering of the genetic code as a National Historic Chemical Landmark.

Public Release: 10-Nov-2009
NHLBI publishes new heart healthy cookbook
The health of your heart has a lot to do with the foods you eat. To help busy people and families shop for, prepare, and serve healthy meals, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health created and published "Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners."

NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Public Release: 9-Nov-2009

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Words, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research
Researchers have shown that the brain regions that have long been recognized as a center in which spoken or written words are decoded are also important in interpreting wordless gestures. The findings suggest that these brain regions may play a much broader role in the interpretation of symbols than researchers have thought and, for this reason, could be the evolutionary starting point from which language originated.

NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
NHLBI stops enrollment in study on resuscitation methods for cardiac arrest
Enrollment has ended early in a large, multi-center clinical trial comparing two distinct resuscitation strategies delivered by emergency medical service providers to increase blood flow during cardiac arrest. The study's independent monitoring board and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the lead sponsor of the study, stopped enrollment based on preliminary data suggesting that neither strategy significantly improved survival.

NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
NIAID announces new human immunology research awards to help fight emerging infectious diseases
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded approximately $208 million to two programs that support research to better understand the human immune response to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, including those that may be introduced into a community through acts of bioterrorism.

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
NIAID awards five-year, $56 million contract to continue study of asthma in inner-city children
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has renewed the contract to continue studying asthma in children living in lower-income, inner-city environments. This five-year, $56 million award will support the Inner-City Asthma Consortium , a nationwide clinical trials network to evaluate promising new therapies to reduce asthma severity and prevent disease, and to perform basic research to understand how these therapies work.

NIH/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Initial results show pregnant women mount strong immune response to 1 dose of 2009 H1N1 vaccine
Healthy pregnant women mount a robust immune response following just one dose of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine, according to initial results from an ongoing clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
New EUREKA awards fund highly innovative research, promise big payoffs
The National Institutes of Health has awarded 56 grants of up to $67.4 million to support highly innovative research projects that promise big scientific payoffs.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Survey: Awareness of COPD is rising, but understanding is still low
Awareness of COPD -- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- continues to grow in the United States, according to national survey results released today by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Clinical tests begin on medication to correct Fragile X defect
NIH-supported scientists at Seaside Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass., are beginning a clinical trial of a potential medication designed to correct a central neurochemical defect underlying Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability. There has to date been no medication that could alter the disorder's neurologic abnormalities. The study will evaluate safety, tolerability and optimal dosage in healthy volunteers.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 30-Oct-2009

Experimental Biology and Medicine
Researchers develop innovative imaging system to study sudden cardiac arrest
A research team at Vanderbilt University has developed an innovative optical system to simultaneously image electrical activity and metabolic properties in the same region of a heart, to study the complex mechanisms that lead to sudden cardiac arrest.

NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, American Heart Association, Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study

Public Release: 30-Oct-2009

Journal of Infectious Diseases
Media availability: The role of biomedical research in malaria eradication
Although malaria has been controlled in many local and regional populations, the permanent elimination of malaria parasites throughout the world remains an elusive goal, and the disease continues to claim nearly one million lives each year. In 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates called for a renewed effort to eradicate malaria worldwide. Some skeptics have questioned the feasibility of doing so because of failed attempts to eradicate malaria in the 20th century.

NIAID

Public Release: 30-Oct-2009

47th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Progress made on Group B streptococcus vaccine
Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, have completed a phase II clinical study that indicates a vaccine to prevent Group B Streptococcus infection is possible.

Public Release: 29-Oct-2009
NIH launches multicenter clinical trial to test blood pressure strategy
The National Institutes of Health is launching a large multicenter randomized clinical trial to determine whether maintaining blood pressure levels lower than current recommendations further reduces the risk of cardiovascular and kidney diseases, or age-related cognitive decline.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 29-Oct-2009

Science
NIAID scientists propose new explanation for flu virus antigenic drift
Influenza viruses evade infection-fighting antibodies by constantly changing the shape of their major surface protein. Now, researchers from NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have proposed a new explanation for the evolutionary forces that drive antigenic drift.

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 28-Oct-2009
NIEHS awards Recovery Act funds to address bisphenol A research gaps
Researchers studying the health effects of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) gathered in North Carolina to launch an integrated research initiative to produce data that will allow for a comprehensive assessment of its possible human health effects.

NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Public Release: 28-Oct-2009
Recovery Act funds expand studies of stem cell biology
NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences is using $5.4 million of Recovery Act funds to accelerate basic studies of induced pluripotent stem cells. These cells are reprogrammed from skin or other easily obtained adult cells and appear to be similar to stem cells derived from embryos.

NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences

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