NIH Radio Archive
July 2009 Audio Reports
The Army of Women includes women from around the United States who participate in studies about breast cancer. The joint initiative between the Avon Research Foundation and the Susan Love Research Foundation started in October of 2008. The Army has already enrolled 300,000 women of all ages and ethnicities, healthy women, and women with all stages of breast cancer. Dr. Love spoke at the National Cancer Institute last week.
A team led by researchers discovered genetic variants related to blood pressure in African-Americans, findings that may provide new clues to treating and preventing hypertension. The effort marks the first time that a relatively new research approach, called a genome-wide association study, has focused on blood pressure and hypertension in an African-American population.
The National Institutes of Health and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates the Wikipedia® online encyclopedia, are joining forces to make health and science information more accessible and reliable. This collaboration is the first of its kind for both organizations.
A trio of genome-wide studies—collectively the largest to date—have pinpointed a vast array of genetic variation that together may account for at least one third of the genetic risk for schizophrenia, a brain disorder that's symptoms can include hallucinations, delusions and disordered thinking. One of the studies traced schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (an illness that causes shifts in a person's mood, energy and ability to function) in part, to the same neighborhood of genes.
A new alliance between the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Chile, aims to accelerate progress against cancer in Hispanic populations in the United States and Latin America by strengthening and expanding cooperation in a broad range of mutual interests, emphasizing basic and clinical cancer research, bioinformatics, data systems and informatics, and transfer of technology.
People with type 2 diabetes are faced with a serious disease that can lead to problems such as heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, and lower limb amputations. However, the sooner that people with type 2 diabetes are able to manage their disease, the better their chances are of avoiding or delaying these serious problems.
Specific variations or mutations in a particular can gene raise a man's risk of familial, or inherited, testicular germ-cell cancer, the most common form of this disease. This is only the second gene to be identified that affects the risk of familial testicular cancer, and the first gene in a key biochemical pathway.
Researchers developed a program called "Strong African American Families" to help rural African American 11-year-olds avoid such risky behaviors as drinking, smoking marijuana, and sexual activity. DNA test results showed some youths carried a gene found to increase the risk of substance use. Teens who had the gene but didn't participate in the program were almost twice as likely to have engaged in the risky behaviors as teens who had the gene and took part in the SAAF program.  FREE MP3 audio reports from the National Institutes of Health, your reliable health information source. Questions? Contact: This page was last reviewed on
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