Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Eye Institute Glaucoma is a major cause of vision loss in the United States, affecting about 2.2 million Americans. The National Eye Institute (NEI) leads research ...

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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a part of the National Institutes of Health that supports basic research and research training, has established two new divisions. Each will administer existing NIGMS programs along ...

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Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, was approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for people ages 50 years and older to prevent pneumonia and invasive disease caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus ...

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John Buse, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has been named the new chair of the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a joint program of the National ...

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The structure of the corpus callosum, a thick band of nerve fibers that connects the two halves of the brain with each other and in this way enables the rapid exchange of information between the ...

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