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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Delayed Reaction: The Fetal Basis of Adult Disease, with Deborah Cory-Slechta
Editor’s Summary Exposure to certain chemicals or stressors in utero can cause immediate health effects for fetuses and babies including lowered birth weight, birth defects, and impaired neurodevelopment. New lines of research are now showing that prenatal exposures may also contribute to health problems that typically arise later in life—such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular...
Lack of Sleep Makes Your Emotions Go Out of Control!
Scientists know that lack of sleep can interfere with your health in many ways. It can disrupt your learning and memory and your ability to fight disease. But they’ve understood much less about how sleep and emotions are connected in the brain. Most of us know that sleepless nights can make your emotions go...
Keep Off that Lost Weight!
Excess weight is the nation’s second-leading cause of preventable death. Extra pounds can lead to diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure—all risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Weight loss can reduce these risks, but losing weight can be a struggle. Keeping it off can feel like a losing battle. A new study suggests that...
Phil Skolnick Appointed NIDA’s Director of DPMCDA
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announced that Phil Skolnick, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hon.), a leader in the worlds of corporate and academic drug research, has been appointed Director of NIDA’s Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse (DPMCDA). The DPMCDA funds research and development through peer reviewed grants and contracts, as...
NIBIB and the Indian Department of Biotechnology Join Forces to Make Low-Cost Medical Devices for Underserved Populations
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), a component of NIH, is dedicated to improving health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies, announced the availability of supplemental funding for eligible NIBIB-supported research grants to facilitate collaborative work among researchers in the United States and India. Applications for...
Importance of HIV/AIDS Testing
In the United States, someone becomes infected with HIV every nine and a half minutes. More than 20 percent of the estimated 1.1 million Americans living with HIV infection do not know they are infected. People at high risk for HIV infection include substance abusers and their sexual partners, gay and bisexual men, female...