Saturday, October 8th, 2011
According to this week's announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, a joint, large-scale, national study, the 'Tobacco Control Act National Longitudinal Study of Tobacco Users' will be conducted monitoring and assessing smoker's behavioral and health impacts of new government tobacco regulations...
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
The number of children aged 4 to 17 years being prescribed ADHD medications in the USA has been steadily rising since 1996, researchers from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) have reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The authors wrote ...
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Specialists in Stony Brook University School of Medicine's Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery took part in a nationwide National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial, the results of which showed that patients at high risk for a second stroke had a lower risk of stroke and death when treated ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have created a mathematical model - and an accompanying online weight simulation tool - of what happens when people of varying weights, diets and exercise habits try to change their weight. The findings challenge the commonly held belief that eating 3,500 fewer calories ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
In what the National Institutes of Health (NIH) deem "unacceptable," it has been discovered that black researchers are 10 percentage points less likely than their white counterparts to receive research grants from the same organization. Blacks were less likely to receive the grants, regardless of education, training, citizenship, country ...
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