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August 2011 NIH Audio Reports Archive
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August 26, 2011
Thinking Globally to Improve Mental Health
(MP3 - 3:00, 3.0 MB)A comprehensive, NIH-led effort has identified the top 40 barriers to improving mental health worldwide. Four-hundred, twenty-two experts in fields such as neuroscience, basic behavioral science, mental health services, and epidemiology, and represented more than 60 countries, are calling for a greater world focus on improving access to care and treatment for mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders, as well as increasing discoveries in research that will enable this goal to be met.
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August 26, 2011
NIH research model predicts weight with varying diet, exercise changes
(MP3 - 2:23, 2.19 MB)An online weight simulation tool shows what happens when people of varying weights, diets and exercise habits try to change their weight.
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August 24, 2011
Any prime-boost mix of injected or spray flu vaccine shields toddlers
(MP3 - 3:12, 2.93 MB)Research funded by NIH shows protection for children younger than 3 years is the same regardless of whether two doses of flu vaccine are injected by needle, inhaled through a nasal spray or provided through one dose of each in any order.
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August 16, 2011
World Mosquito Day, August 20
(MP3 - 3:14, 2.95 MB)August 20 is World Mosquito Day, commemorating the discovery of Sir Ronald Ross who first showed that female mosquitoes transmit malaria.
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August 11, 2011
NIH Develops a Program to Encourage Science in Schools around the Country
(MP3 - 2:44, 2.51 MB)The NIH K–12 LAB Challenge is a call to the nation to help the NIH bring engaging hands-on science into the classroom — so everyone can enjoy doing science! The NIH is asking people to send their best experiments for kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms.
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