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NIH Supports U of U Health Effort to Develop Online Dementia Advance Care Planning Tool
Jul 06, 2022 12:55 PM University of Utah Health scientists are developing a website to help guide individuals who are in the early stages of, dementia through crucial end-of-life conversations with their care partners. Photo credit: Getty Images Thinking about disease, disability, and death is difficult at any age. But it becomes ever more important …
Nearly 25,000 alleged email address and passwords for NIH, WHO and Gates Foundation dumped online
The lists, whose origins are unclear, appear to have first been posted to 4chan, a message board notorious for its hateful and extreme political commentary, and later to Pastebin, a text storage site, to Twitter and to far-right extremist channels on Telegram, a messaging app. “Neo-Nazis and white supremacists capitalized on the lists and published …
$3.2 million NIH award to support technology to fight deadly bacterial lung infections
A Purdue University team has received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for its work to treat antibiotic-resistant lower respiratory infections – the fourth-leading cause of death worldwide. (Illustration by Ella Maru Studio) Download image WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – New support may help Purdue University scientists target what they call one …
NIH Director on Human Gene Editing: ‘We Must Never Allow our Technology to Eclipse our Humanity’
Often, science moves ahead incrementally. Yet sometimes it advances in dramatic leaps and bounds that can stir new hopes for medical benefits while shaking society to its very core. We saw both in 2019, as work using the gene-editing tool CRISPR gained momentum. The year opened with the scientific community scrambling to respond to the …
NIH to make award for All of Us Participant Technology Systems Center
The National Institutes of Health is soliciting applications for operating the Participant Technology Systems Center in support of NIH’s All of Us research program, a Precision Medicine Initiative cohort. NIH has issued a new funding opportunity to continue the work of the Participant Technology Systems Center (PTSC), which was initially funded in March 2017 to …
NIH Statement on World AIDS Day 2019
News Release Monday, November 25, 2019 Earlier this year, President Donald J. Trump made a bold commitment during his State of the Union Address to end the HIV epidemic in the United States. Subsequently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched an ambitious plan called “Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America” …
