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National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases
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NIH statement on National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day Sept. 18, 2010
Older HIV-infected adults face unique health challenges stemming from age-related changes to the body accelerated by HIV infection, the side effects of long-term treatment for HIV, the infection itself and often, treatments for age-associated illnesses. Sept. 18 marks the third annual National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, an opportunity to highlight these challenges and the research under way to improve the health and quality of life of older people infected with HIV.
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NIH-funded studies aim to prevent, treat childhood obesity
The National Institutes of Health is launching two major research efforts, totaling $72.5 million, to examine ways to curtail the nation's childhood obesity epidemic. One will study long-term approaches to prevent or treat childhood obesity, and the other will examine community efforts to reduce childhood obesity rates.
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Funds awarded for disease demonstration studies and technology development
The National Institutes of Health today announced it has awarded approximately $42 million to expand the scope of eight demonstration projects designed to link changes in the human microbiome to health and disease. The funds will also support investigators to develop innovative technologies to improve the identification and characterization of microbial communities of the human microbiome.
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Mild cognitive impairment more common in older men than older women
Older men may be at risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a precursor to Alzheimer's disease, earlier in life than older women, according to a study appearing today in Neurology.
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NIH study shows how insulin stimulates fat cells to take in glucose
Using high-resolution microscopy, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have shown how insulin prompts fat cells to take in glucose in a rat model. The findings were reported in the Sept. 8 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism.
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NIH to launch Gulf oil spill health study
The National Institutes of Health will launch a multi-year study this
fall to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the
Gulf region. The Gulf Worker Study, announced by NIH Director Francis
S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., in June, is in response to the largest oil spill
in U.S. history, caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore
drilling oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Collins pledged $10 million
in NIH funding for the study's initial phases.
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NIH expands key pharmacogenomics resource
To help advance research on how genes affect responses to medicines, the National Institutes of Health is spending $15 million over five years to expand a key resource, the Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base (PharmGKB), http://www.pharmgkb.org/.
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NIH expands network focused on how genes affect drug responses
The National Institutes of Health plans to spend $161.3 million over the next five years to expand the Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN), a nationwide collaborative of scientists focused on understanding how genes affect a person's response to medicines.
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NIH-sponsored research yields promising malaria drug candidate
A chemical that rid mice of malaria-causing parasites after a single oral dose
may eventually become a new malaria drug if further tests in animals and people
uphold the promise of early findings. The compound, NITD609, was developed by
an international team of researchers including Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Ph.D.,
a grantee of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Lower blood pressure goal benefits African-Americans with chronic kidney disease, protein in the urine
On average, a lower blood pressure goal was no better than the standard blood pressure goal at slowing progression of kidney disease among African-Americans who had chronic kidney disease resulting from high blood pressure, according to results of the African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK), the largest and longest study of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in African-Americans. However, the blood pressure goal did benefit people who also had protein in the urine, which is a sign of kidney damage. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, appears in the Sept. 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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