Former NIH chief advises women to ignore new mammogram guideline, says it will lead to deaths The former director of the National Institutes ...
* Alliance sees threat of epidemic of chronic disease * To invest tens of millions of dollars in research * Focus is on ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The federal government's push to control health costs through comparative effectiveness research could threaten strides in personalized medicine, in which medicines are tailored to an individual's genetic makeup, the chief of the National Institutes of Health said on Monday. ...
University of Michigan awarded 13 fed stimulus grants totaling $6.8M for stem cell research The University of Michigan has received 13 federal stimulus grants worth $6.8 million for stem cell research — a sign of the state's growing clout since voters last ...
Social networking is coming to the science lab. Cornell University and six other institutions will use a $12.2 million federal stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a Facebook-style professional networking system to link biomedical researchers across the country. ...
Study: Sour taste buds, not popping bubbles, are what sense the flavor of carbonated drinks Like the fizz of a soft drink? Thank your tongue's sour-sensing taste buds. Nope, it's not the popping bubbles that gives the "taste" of carbonation. Try a ...
Scientists have grown a piece of heart muscle — and then watched it beat — by using stem cells from a mouse embryo, a big step toward one day repairing damage from heart attacks. Think of Dr. Kenneth Chien as a heart ...
President Barack Obama presents the National Medal of Science to Dr. Francis Collins of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Copyright 2009 AP ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ada Yonath, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, talked the U.S. government into spending $4.7 million on her research that eventually involved a Dead Sea salt-loving microbe. Thomas Steitz of Yale University, a co-winner ...
Calling scientific research a job-creating engine, President Barack Obama heralded $5 billion in new government grants Wednesday to fight cancer, autism and heart disease while boosting the economy. Obama described the money as crucial to improving public health and helping add jobs ...
Being fat in middle age may slash women's chances of making it to their golden years in good health by almost 80 percent, a new study says. American researchers observed more than 17,000 female nurses with an average age of 50 in ...
Studies of the new swine flu vaccine show children 10 and older will need just one shot for protection — but younger kids almost certainly will need two. Protection kicks in for older children within eight to 10 days of the shot, ...
