Wednesday, 08 August 2012
Infant mortality in Maryland remained at a record low for the second consecutive year, Gov. Martin O'Malley and Health Secretary Dr....
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Brian Hipszer, a Jefferson researcher and a diabetic, puts his own body into the quest for an artificial pancreas.
Monday, 06 August 2012
Ezekial J. "Zeke" Emanuel, one of the principal architects of President Obama's health care reform act, is now vice provost for global initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania.
Monday, 06 August 2012
Maryland's medical community is concerned about the potential fallout from two multimillion-dollar malpractice judgments awarded by...
Saturday, 04 August 2012
Scientists have discovered a biological marker that may help to identify which depressed patients will respond to an experimental, rapid-acting antidepressant. The brain signal, detectable by noninvasive imaging, also holds clues to the agent’s underlying mechanism, which are vital for drug development, say National Institutes of Health researchers.
Saturday, 04 August 2012
New research suggests that 1.4 million Americans have celiac disease, but don't realize it.
Saturday, 04 August 2012
Taylor DesRosiers was a competitive swimmer throughout her life, always fit. But in her first year of medical school, she realized that...
Friday, 03 August 2012
The National Institutes of Health is taking steps to expand engagement with extramural investigators interested in collaborating with intramural researchers to use the unique resources of the NIH Clinical Center.
Friday, 03 August 2012
Rabies is generally thought to be universally fatal, but new evidence suggests that is not always the case. A study in Peru suggests that...
Thursday, 02 August 2012
The death toll of the 2009 influenza pandemic in equatorial climates may have been much lower than originally thought, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center. The paper, published in PLoS ONE, challenges the idea that the pandemic was deadlier in the tropics, which harbor nearly half of the world's population and which have the highest burden of infectious disease.