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• in Technology
  Future of US Scientific Research Unclear After Fiscal Cliff
  Although the US fiscal cliff has been averted, the future of US science research is still not clear.
  by jobertv / on Jan 6, 2013
• in Technorati Women
  Does Your Kid Need A Cholesterol Screening?
  A panel recommends routine screening for elevated cholesterol in children ages 2-9.
  by jenna3967 / on Jul 24, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Early Identification of Autism is Essential
  Autism prevalence study in South Korea sheds light on need for universal screening of infants and toddlers
  by melissbrand / on May 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nih”

 

• The drink conversation

  
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  Researchers say that, when parents talk to their kids about drinking, in the summer before the kids go to college, some kids won’t drink after they arrive, and those who do drink may drink less. At Penn State, Robert Turrisi found this in a study in which researchers mailed a handbook on how to have the ...
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• Evan Weiner: NFL Job Audition Includes Making “Suicide Squad” Rather than Special Teams Squad

  
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  Posted with the express consent of Evan Weiner: . . THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTS . BY EVAN WEINER COMMENTARY . The NFL job audition includes making the “suicide squad” rather than the special teams squad . May 11, 2013 Examiner . The National Football League is open for business again. Players are on [...]
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• Using bacteria to stop malaria

  
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  MSU research shows that the transmission of malaria via mosquitoes to humans can be interrupted by using a strain of the bacteria Wolbachia. Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. Research conducted at Michigan State University (MSU), however, demonstrates that they also can be equally adept in curing ...
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• The importance of the zebrafish in biomedicine

  
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  For those who have read about studies involving zebrafish and wondered how such a tiny fish can help advance research on human health, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins , MD, PhD, has your answer. From a post yesterday on the NIH Director’s Blog: …Well, it turns out that more than 75% of ...
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• Kitware to Accelerate Community-Driven Medical Innovation

  
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  A new press release from Kitware, makers of CMake, ParaView, VTK, ITK, and lots of popular scientific visualization toolkits, announces that they just got a grant from the NIH to push forward in the biomedical space. Historically, VTK been indirectly funded by the development of related applications such as ...
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• Sequestration hits the NIH – fewer new grants, smaller budgets

  
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  I wrote yesterday about the Twitter stream launched by NIH Director Francis Collins , MD, PhD, to call attention to the real-world effects of the budget sequestration on biological research in labs across the country. Today the agency detailed for the first time the way it plans to carry out the mandatory cuts, ...
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• New DSM Criteria Manual Challenged by Expert for Lack of Validity

  
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  Setting standards for the assessment of psychiatric criteria in workers compensation claims has been a major challenge. Subjective criteria has been difficult for the experts, evaluators and courts to yield an objective analysis. With a new version of the  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
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• The effects of sequestration… a report from the field

  
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  So I have it on reasonable authority that the pay line at the NSF/MCB is hovering at around the 10% mark (May, 2013). This is in contrast to their usual pay line, closer to high teens. In a few areas at NIH, the paylines have dipped to around 6%. Is it time for NIH and NSF to implement a pre-proposal mechanism (like ...
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• NIH Director polls Twitter for real-world responses to budget cutbacks

  
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  Here’s a developing social media story of interest to scientists, clinicians and the general public. National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins , MD, PhD, kicked a hornets’ nest on Twitter earlier today with a tweet asking researchers to describe the direct impact of the U.S. budget sequestration ...
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• Feds Spend $402,721 on Underwear That Senses Cigarette Smoke

  
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  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $400,000 to a research project involving underwear that can detect when a person smokes cigarettes. The University of Alabama has received two grants totaling $402,721 for the project, which so far has produced a “very early prototype” of the ...
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• Feds Spend $402,721 on Underwear That Senses Cigarette Smoke

  
  Psychiatry, It's A Killing. — Authority: 142
  CNSNews has; Feds Spend $402,721 on Underwear That Senses Cigarette Smoke May 7, 2013 By  Elizabeth Harrington The Personal Automatic Cigarette Tracker, being developed with taxpayer money, aims to put a breathing sensor in conventional underwear and a "hand ...
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• Women’ s, men’ s brains respond differently to hungry infant’ s cries

  
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  Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have uncovered firm evidence for what many mothers have long suspected: women’s brains appear to be hard-wired to respond to the cries of a hungry infant. Researchers asked men and women to let their minds wander, then played a recording of white noise interspersed ...
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• Anti-HIV therapy appears to protect children’ s hearts, NIH network study shows

  
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  For children who have had HIV-1 infection since birth, the combination drug therapies now used to treat HIV appear to protect against the heart damage seen before combination therapies were available, according to researchers in a National Institutes of Health network study. In the early 1990s, children with HIV ...
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• Tips and tragedy

  
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  Smoking kills, and many of us realize that. We might not realize that smoking also maims and disfigures. And it can do all that even to people who don’t smoke but who inhale secondhand smoke from people who do. New video and print ads from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the "Tips from Former ...
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• Screening for type-1 diabetes trials goes online

  
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  Having a relative with type-1 diabetes makes you 15 times as likely as other people to get the disease, in which the body inappropriately destroys insulin -producing cells in the pancreas . But unlike the more common form of diabetes, type-2 diabetes , physicians don’t know how to prevent type 1 diabetes from ...
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• Pregnancy may permanently change a woman’ s feet

  
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  At the University of Iowa, Researcher Neil Segal looked at data on the feet of 49 women before pregnancy and again five months after childbirth. He found that, for up to 70 percent of the women, their feet got bigger. “There was a drop in the arch of the foot. And there was a reduction in how rigid the tissue was ...
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• Miracles Make My Monday

  
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  Last year, on Melanoma Monday (the first Monday in May each year), Mr. L and I were at the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer at UVA having Scotts port placed. The next day, we began his first week of his first cycle of IL-2 treatment... This year, on Melanoma Monday, my man, our twins Daddy, has NO EVIDENCE OF ...
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• Scrounging for Research Dollars

  
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  I dont have time for this, I need to get back to writing grants! Image courtesy of David Shankbone, Wikimedia Commons. If you’re a scientist these days, getting the money to do your research is a lot like getting into Stanford or Yale. Assuming you aren’t rich or connected, being incredibly skilled, ...
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• Screening for Loneliness?

  
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    © GLOW IMAGES Models used for illustrative purposes by Don Ingwerson This post was originally posted July 30, 2012 Early in life, I discovered the importance and the relationship between health and performance. While in the military, I worked in a chapel located where all new recruits in that region ...
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• Week in Review, or Politicizing Science

  
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  In betwixt ongoing budget battles, and even during recess break, research continued to get politicized this week with House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith again vocal in his bid to overhaul the peer review process at NSF. On Monday, Chairman Smith released the text of the draft bill — the High Quality ...
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