Tribes plan for worst with looming budget cuts
64 days ago
The federal Indian Health Service says it would be forced to slash its number of patient visits by more than 800,000 a year.
CDC warns about 'nightmare bacteria'
75 days ago
A strain of the superbug killed seven patients in 2011 at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., but the deaths were not disclosed until 2012.
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76 days ago
"You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we've seen" - Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health in comments after scientists announced that a baby born with...
Menendez says he called gov't on behalf of donor
101 days ago
Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, says Thursday he contacted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to ask about billing practices.
Testing brain pacemakers to zap Alzheimer's damage
118 days ago
The evidence is preliminary and will take years of study to prove, but "this is an exciting novel approach," said Dr. Laurie Ryan of the National Institutes of Health's aging division, which is...
Tribal justice reform slow-going in Indian Country
123 days ago
And the Indian Health Service last year more than tripled the number of workers trained to respond to sexual assault cases and conduct forensic exams.
Junior Seau had degenerative brain disease when he committed suicide
128 days ago
"The NFL said the Seau finding underscores the need for additional research to better understand CTE, and that the league, working with the NIH and other leading organizations, is "committed to...
Junior Seau had brain disease CTE
129 days ago
The NIH conducted a study of three unidentified brains, one of which was Seau's. It said the findings were similar to autopsies of people "with exposure to repetitive head injury.
Healthcare law provision on guns draws criticism
140 days ago
More limits came last year in a spending bill setting restrictions on the National Institutes of Health after complaints from gun-rights advocates about an NIH-backed study drawing links between...
Peeking over the 'fiscal cliff': What's down there?
164 days ago
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be cut by $464 million; the National Institutes of Health, $2.5 billion; the Transportation Security Administration, $429 million for airport...
