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Did Researchers Really Uncover the Cause of SIDS?
Dan Robitzski | May 18, 2022 | 10 min read
An interesting but preliminary biomarker study’s reception illustrates the challenges of conducting and communicating nuanced research in the era of social media.
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Opinion: New Diabetes Drug Signals Shift to Preventing Autoimmunity
Jane Buckner, MD and Carla Greenbaum, MD | Mar 1, 2023 | 4 min read
A therapy for type 1 diabetes is the first to treat patients before symptoms appear, paving the way toward preventing this and other autoimmune diseases.
NIH Expands Undiagnosed Diseases Program
Tracy Vence | Jul 3, 2014 | 1 min read
The National Institutes of Health is funding six extramural medical centers to help identify the causes of mysterious diseases.
Decisions, Decisions: NIH's Disease-By-Disease Allocations Draw New Fire
Bruce Agnew | Mar 29, 1998 | 8 min read
'BODY-COUNT BUDGETING'? Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) is concerned that diseases that cost taxpayers the most money may not be getting a proportionate amount of NIH funds. For the third year in a row, the National Institutes of Health came under fire this month for slighting some diseases and favoring more politically correct ills when it parcels out its research-funding billions. "What this whole thing boils down to," NIH director Harold Varmus recently told a special Institute of Medicine (I
NIH funding rates drop
Megan Scudellari | Apr 14, 2010 | 2 min read
Last year, the NIH funded fewer grants than it has for any year in the last nine years, and the average grant success rate -- 20.6 percent of reviewed grant applications funded among 26 institutions -- was the second lowest since 2000. Success rates are down from 21.8 percent in 2008 and only slightly higher than the 2006 ten-year low, when the NIH dispersed its funds out among only 20.0 percent of reviewed proposals. In total, 8,881 grant applications were funded last year, down from 9,460
NIH Funding Boost Clears Senate Committee
Shawna Williams | Sep 6, 2017 | 1 min read
The proposed spending increase in the draft bill is more generous than that in the House version.
FDA Approves Oral Drug for Fabry Disease
Ashley Yeager | Aug 13, 2018 | 2 min read
The medicine increases the activity of a deficient enzyme in certain patients with the condition.
Lawmakers Propose Increasing NIH Budget
Shawna Williams | Jul 12, 2017 | 2 min read
A House bill would also bar funding for research with fetal tissues.
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Stem Cell Funding Agency CIRM Is Nearly Out of Funds
Chia-Yi Hou | Jul 8, 2019 | 3 min read
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has been funding research since it formed in 2004, giving out nearly $3 billion in grants to date.
A Move To Fund The NIH's 'Also-Rans'
Murray Saffran | Mar 5, 1989 | 3 min read
Tucked in among the multipage, multicolored ads touting medications for baldness, hypertension, and assorted infections in the New England Journal of Medicine on November 17, 1988, was a one-column notice in plain, black and white describing an innovative research grant program. The ad, placed by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) of Bethesda, Md., called for proposals from investigators whose grant applications to the National Institutes of Health had received the NIH’s dreaded verdi

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