The NIH urges women to protect their heart health The Heart Truth campaign celebrates a decade of progress  and continues to inspire heart health action during American Heart Month As part of American Heart Month, ...

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NIH study uncovers probable mechanism underlying resveratrol activity Findings may settle scientific debate surrounding this chemical found in red wine and other foods National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues have identified how resveratrol, ...

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Gene regulator in brain’s executive hub tracked across lifespan — NIH study Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity,  across the lifespan, of ...

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Sophisticated “targeted” drug therapies are improving cancer care by selectively shutting down abnormal growth switches in tumor cells while avoiding toxicity to normal tissues. In some cases, though, tumors that are initially sensitive to these ...

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Harvard stem cell researchers and scientists at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have found that the age-related degeneration in conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS) may be reversible. The researchers, co-led by ...

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NIH study to test treatment for fatty liver disease in children With the launch of a new clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health, researchers are working to determine whether treating children diagnosed ...

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