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Alcoholics may benefit from multimillion-dollar grant for opioid-blocking implant, says Anaheim companyFebruary 20, 2019 at 5:19 PM It’s a well-known and lethal problem: About 90 percent of recovering addicts relapse and use drugs such as heroin again.
The overwhelming majority of these falls from grace occur within one month of successfully completing treatment, and the results can be deadly, according to several studies.
BioCorRX, a small Anaheim company, believes it can help break this vicious cycle, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse is inclined to agree. The institute — part of the National Institutes of Health — ...Tags: Health, Business, News, Australia, California, Russia, California News, Sport, Soccer, United States, Addiction, SEC, National Institutes of Health, Fda, Nih, Ucla 48 people like this. Like CWRU awarded NIH grant to identify effective treatments for intimate partner violenceFebruary 14, 2019 at 3:14 AM Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Gunnur Karakurt, PhD has been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify effective treatments for intimate partner violence, and to develop a decision-making tool for care providers.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, CWRU 41 people like this. Like NIH scientists zero in on genes associated with AMDFebruary 12, 2019 at 5:41 AM National Eye Institute scientists led a collaborative study and zeroed in on genes associated with age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss and blindness among people age 65 and older.Tags: Health, Amd, Nih, National Eye Institute 37 people like this. Like Stimulating this part of the brain causes ‘uncontrollable urge to laugh’February 12, 2019 at 4:19 PM  Tags: Happiness, Mental Health, Anxiety, Medical Research, Innovation, National Institutes of Health, Nih, Human body, Jon T Willie 102 people like this. Like NIH and partners host meeting to discuss the future of spinal cord injury researchFebruary 12, 2019 at 2:22 AM The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its partners will host a meeting of researchers, clinicians, patients and patient advocates to discuss spinal cord injury (SCI) research and to chart a course of future studies.Tags: Health, Nih, National Institutes of Health NIH, SCI 12 people like this. Like NIH "Inclusion Across the Lifespan" policy supports research involving underrepresented age groupsFebruary 11, 2019 at 3:12 AM The pipeline of research supporting care as we age is about to look a bit more like the country it serves--and for good reason. Beginning this year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), America's premier institution for medical research, will for the first time in its history require NIH-funded scholars to eliminate arbitrary age limits in their work, age limits that previously allowed for excluding groups like older people without just cause.Tags: Health, Nih, NIH Inclusion Across the Lifespan, National Institutes of Health NIH America 27 people like this. Like NIH-funded researchers develop new assay to measure success of HIV cure strategiesJanuary 31, 2019 at 1:46 AM Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new assay to accurately and easily count the cells that comprise the HIV reservoir, the stubborn obstacle to an HIV cure.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih 42 people like this. Like NIH grants awarded to Nanoscope to recruit talent and develop optogenetic delivery platformsJanuary 29, 2019 at 12:02 AM Retinal dystrophies such as Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are a major cause of vision loss in aging populations. National Eye Institute (NEI) estimates that the prevalence of advanced AMD will grow to nearly 3 million by 2020.Tags: Health, Amd, Nih, National Eye Institute NEI, Nanoscope 44 people like this. Like NIH funds first artificial pancreas trial for pregnant women with type 1 diabetes in the U.S.January 25, 2019 at 10:38 PM The National Institutes of Health has awarded a R01 grant to a multi-institutional team to develop and evaluate a pregnancy-specific Artificial Pancreas in a sequence of in-clinic and transitional environment clinical trials.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih 30 people like this. Like NIH researchers discover that anti-flu antibodies can inhibit two different viral proteinsJanuary 25, 2019 at 10:24 PM Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered that antibodies that may form the basis of a universal flu vaccine inhibit a second viral protein in addition to the one that they bind.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih 16 people like this. Like Integral Molecular receives NIH grant to start target discovery program for Alzheimer's diseaseJanuary 10, 2019 at 1:35 AM Integral Molecular, the industry leader in membrane protein technologies, was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the NIH to initiate a target discovery program for Alzheimer's disease.Tags: Health, Nih 45 people like this. Like Hyperactive immune system implicated in aging brain disordersJanuary 2, 2019 at 10:18 PM In a study of fruit flies, NIH scientists suggested that the body's immune system may play a critical role in the damage caused by aging brain disorders. The results are based on experiments in which the researchers altered the activity of Cdk5, a gene that preclinical studies have suggested is important for early brain development and may be involved in neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.Tags: Health, Nih, Parkinson 36 people like this. Like GW researchers receive NIH funding to study causes of high risk of heart disease in HIV patientsDecember 21, 2018 at 1:22 AM Atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are major complications of HIV infection and cannot currently be treated by antiretroviral treatments.Tags: Health, Nih, Gw 31 people like this. Like New $1.6 million NIH grant supports study on a gene vital to circadian rhythmsDecember 18, 2018 at 12:18 AM Circadian rhythms (from the Latin circa diem -- "around a day") based on the Earth's 24-hour rotation have been observed since the fourth century.Tags: Health, Earth, Nih 21 people like this. Like Study investigates attitudes toward implementation of 'sex as a biological variable' policyDecember 13, 2018 at 3:23 AM In 2016, the National Institutes of Health implemented a policy which requires grant applicants to "consider sex as a biological variable" in vertebrate animal and human studies. A new study surveyed NIH study section members in 2016 and 2017 regarding their attitudes toward the policy and found that a majority of respondents thought that it was important to consider SABV in the experimental design and that considering SABV would improve the rigor and reproducibility of NIH-funded preclinical re...Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih 15 people like this. Like NIH offers support for HIV care and prevention research in the southern United StatesDecember 12, 2018 at 12:24 AM The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will fund a series of collaborations with medical research institutions in the southern United States to test new ways of implementing HIV treatment and prevention tools in counties with some of the highest rates of new HIV cases nationwide.Tags: Health, United States, Nih 49 people like this. Like UCR postdoctoral researcher wins prestigious NIH fellowship to study neural crest cellsDecember 6, 2018 at 3:19 AM Rebekah Charney, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health.Tags: Health, Nih, University of California Riverside, UCR, School of Medicine, Rebekah Charney, Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service 13 people like this. Like NIH-funded tissue chips that model aspects of the human immune system sent to spaceDecember 5, 2018 at 3:24 AM When traveling in space, astronauts experience physiological changes normally associated with aging, such as bone loss, muscle deterioration and altered immune systems. When the astronauts return to Earth, the changes often reverse.Tags: Health, Nih 12 people like this. Like NIH-funded study finds how hantaviruses infect the lungsNovember 26, 2018 at 12:56 PM A human protein associated with asthma is key to how hantaviruses infect the lungs and sometimes cause a life-threatening pulmonary condition known as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health.Tags: Health, Nih 3 people like this. Like New research project to combat obesity, type 2 diabetes receives NIH fundingNovember 20, 2018 at 12:11 AM A research project headed by a faculty member from the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, which will explore whether administering a protein that's produced in the body can help prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes, has received $464,145 in funding from the National Institutes of Health.Tags: Health, Nih 24 people like this. Like NIH awards over $1.8 million to husband-and-wife doctors to test new breast cancer approachNovember 16, 2018 at 2:11 AM Husband-and-wife doctors at the University of Virginia Cancer Center have been awarded more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health for their effort to improve radiation therapy and breast surgery for patients with early-stage breast cancer.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih, University of Virginia Cancer Center 41 people like this. Like A plant so spicy it can destroy nerves, giving pain reliefNovember 15, 2018 at 7:49 AM The Moroccan Euphorbia resinifera plant produces a resin so spicy that it attains a whopping 16,000,000,000 on the Scoville scale, 10,000x hotter than a Carolina reaper chili.
The active ingredient in this resin is resiniferatoxin, AKA RTX, which has proven incredible promising in early animal trials for treating chronic pain. Dogs with joint pain are anesthetized and injected with RTX, which destroys their nerve endings and makes them incapable of sensing pain until the nerves regenerate, ...Tags: Health, Post, Science, News, Cancer, Fda, Nih, Pain, Carolina, Scoville, Matt Simon, Rtx, Resiniferatoxin 4 people like this. Like NIH awards $3.4 million to UC researchers to study gastrointestinal lymphatic systemNovember 15, 2018 at 12:14 AM A team of researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine have been awarded $3.4 million by the National Institutes of Health to study the role of the gastrointestinal lymphatic system in dietary nutrient absorption and the transport of signaling molecules.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 22 people like this. Like NIH researchers shed light on causes of HBV-associated acute liver failureNovember 14, 2018 at 3:25 AM National Institutes of Health scientists and their collaborators found that hepatitis B virus-associated acute liver failure--a rare condition that can turn fatal within days without liver transplantation--results from an uncommon encounter between a highly mutated HBV variant and an unusual immune response in the patient's liver that is mainly sustained by antibody-producing B cells.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih, HBV 27 people like this. Like NIH awards $3.5 million to continue development of robotic system for treating brain tumorsNovember 13, 2018 at 1:30 PM Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Albany Medical College, along with corporate partners GE Global Research and Acoustic MedSystems Inc., have received a five-year, $3.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health through the National Cancer Institutes' Academic-Industrial Partnership program, to continue development of an innovative robotic system that, operating within an MRI scanner, can deliver a minimally invasive probe into the brain to destroy metastatic brain tum...Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Albany Medical College, GE Global Research and Acoustic MedSystems Inc 29 people like this. Like Case Western Reserve School of Medicine receives NIH grant for undergraduate cancer researchNovember 7, 2018 at 2:49 AM Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is preparing and inspiring a new generation of cancer investigators through Cancer-focused Summer Undergraduate Research.Tags: Health, Nih, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine 31 people like this. Like NIH increases funding through the BRAIN InitiativeNovember 2, 2018 at 9:01 PM The National Institutes of Health announces funding of more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, an exciting trans-agency effort to arm researchers with revolutionary tools to fundamentally understand the neural circuits that underlie the healthy and diseased brain.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih, Brain Research 20 people like this. Like UA professor wins NIH grant to advance research in preventing heart failureNovember 1, 2018 at 1:34 PM A University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix researcher has received a $393,493 grant from the National Institutes of Health to further her research in reducing the risk of heart failure in patients with high blood pressure.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih, UA, University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix 30 people like this. Like Integral Molecular wins NIH grant to initiate target discovery program for Alzheimer’s diseaseNovember 1, 2018 at 12:45 PM Integral Molecular, the industry leader in membrane protein technologies, was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the NIH to initiate a target discovery program for Alzheimer's disease.Tags: Health, Nih 32 people like this. Like UC Scientist receives NIH grant for developing new malaria therapeutic strategiesNovember 1, 2018 at 2:33 AM A scientist at the University of California, Riverside, who researches the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is the principal investigator, or PI, on two grants from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, totaling nearly $6.6 million. Funding from each grant is for five years.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, Nih, University of California Riverside 4 people like this. Like |
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