Press Release Archives

September 23-30, 2008

• NIH Announces Initial Implementation Timeline for Enhancing Peer Review Activity, September 30, 2008
• NIH Named to AARP's List of Best Employers for Workers Over 50, September 30, 2008
• NIDA NewsScan #55 (PDF - 139 KB), September 29, 2008
• NIH Announces Funding for New Epigenomics Initiative, September 29, 2008
• Dietary Supplements Glucosamine and/or Chondroitin Fare No Better than Placebo in Slowing Structural Damage of Knee Osteoarthritis, September 29, 2008
• Parkinson’s Disease Information Added to NIHSeniorHealth Web Site, September 29, 2008
• NIDDK Publishes Fact Sheets about Thyroid Disorders, September 26, 2008
• New Pig Model of Cystic Fibrosis Lays Groundwork for Better Understanding of Human Disease, September 25, 2008
• NIH's Genes Environment and Health Initiative Adds Six Studies, September 24, 2008
• NIH, DOD, and VA Host Two Day Conference on Trauma Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Gender, Race & Other Socioeconomic Factors, September 24, 2008
• Elias A. Zerhouni to End Tenure as Director of the National Institutes of Health, September 24, 2008
• Promising Results in Phase 1 Gene Therapy Trial for Blinding Disease, September 23, 2008

September 15-22, 2008

• NIBIB Welcomes Two New Members to Advisory Council, September 22, 2008
• NIH Extends Its Commitment to Transformative Research with $138 Million for Director's Pioneer and New Innovator Awards in 2008, September 22, 2008
• Monitoring Exhaled Nitric Oxide Does Not Help Manage Asthma, September 19, 2008
• Li to Step Down as Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, September 18, 2008
• Four New Members Named to National Neurology Advisory Council, September 18, 2008
• Large, Multi-Center Trial Demonstrates Comparable Accuracy for Virtual Colonoscopy and Standard Colonoscopy, September 17, 2008
• Roughly One Quarter of U.S. Women Affected By Pelvic Floor Disorders, September 17, 2008
• New NIH Research Initiative to Test Treatments for Menopausal Symptoms, September 17, 2008
• NIEHS Invests $21.25 Million to Find Environmental Causes of Parkinson's Disease, September 16, 2008
• NIH, DoD, and VA host two day conference on Trauma Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Gender, Race & Other Socioeconomic Factors, October 1-2, 2008, September 15, 2008
• Two New Members Added to NINR's National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, September 15, 2008
• Newer Antipsychotics No Better Than Older Drug in Treating Child and Adolescent Schizophrenia, September 15, 2008

September 8-14, 2008

• Study Provides Clues about How Cancer Cells Develop Resistance to Chemotherapy Drug, September 14, 2008
• Newly Identified Gene Variations Account for Increased Burden of Kidney Disease among African-Americans, September 14, 2008
• Wilder Named OPASI Division Director, September 12, 2008
• Herpes Virus Changes Anti-Herpes Drug to Form that Hinders AIDS Virus, September 10, 2008
• NIH Awards $4.6 Million to Expand Global Health Network, September 10, 2008
• The NIH Reform Act of 2006: Progress, Challenges, and Next Steps, September 9, 2008
• NIH Announces New Transformative R01 Funding Program, September 9, 2008
• NIH Nominates Scientific Management Review Board Members, September 9, 2008
• NIH Supports Research Careers by Repaying Student Loan Debt, September 9, 2008

September 1-7, 2008

• NIH Launches Effort to Advance Study of Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Disorders, September 5, 2008
• NIDA Announces Recipients of New Avant-Garde Award for Innovative HIV/AIDS Research, September 5, 2008
• Study Reveals Link between Apobec3 Gene and Neutralizing Antibody Response to Retrovirus, September 4, 2008
• The Cancer Genome Atlas Reports First Results Of Comprehensive Study of Brain Tumors, September 4, 2008
• NTP Finalizes Report on Bisphenol A, September 3, 2008
• NIH Awards First EUREKA Grants for Exceptionally Innovative Research, September 3, 2008
• NIH Funds Nine Centers to Speed Application of Powerful New Research Approach, September 2, 2008