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Initial investment aims to advance accessible and scalable candidate interventions into clinical trials within 10 years The National Institutes of Health plans to invest at least $100 million over the next four years toward an audacious goal: develop affordable, gene-based cures for sickle cell disease (SCD) and HIV. The Bill & Melinda Gates...
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today that Adolfo Correa, M.D., Ph.D., director and principal investigator of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), has decided to retire and step down from his leadership of the study in December 2020. Recruited to be the study’s Chief Science...
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NHLBI in the Press
mplementation, the adoption of research findings in clinicians’ everyday practice, can be the Achilles’s heel of health care advancements and improvement in patients’ outcomes.
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NHLBI in the Press
Lung regeneration and repair has been a long-standing interest of NHLBI, since the creation of the Division of Lung Diseases (DLD) 50 years ago
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Researchers have identified 57 genetic variations of a gene strongly associated with declines in blood oxygen levels during sleep. Low oxygen levels during sleep are a clinical indicator of the severity of sleep apnea, a disorder that increases the risk of heart disease, dementia, and death. The study, published today in the American Journal of...
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News Release
Initial investment aims to advance accessible and scalable candidate interventions into clinical trials within 10 years The National Institutes of Health plans to invest at least $100 million over the next four years toward an audacious goal: develop affordable, gene-based cures for sickle cell disease (SCD) and HIV. The Bill & Melinda Gates...
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NHLBI in the Press
Scientists have identified a previously unknown regulatory role for well-known byproduct of cell metabolism that could help shed light on cancer, atherosclerosis, sepsis, and a host of other diseases.
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NHLBI in the Press
Chronic stress may play a key role in the development of high blood pressure in African-Americans, a new study suggests.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers are reporting that Valium and other benzodiazepines—sedatives used to treat anxiety, sleeping disorders, and other conditions—appear to work by a previously unknown mechanism.
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NHLBI in the Press
A study partly funded by NHLBI shows potential link between bad quality sleep and Alzheimer’s disease in Hispanics/Latinos.
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NHLBI in the Press
In a study of over 25,000 people ages 17-93 years, researchers found that smoking just a few cigarettes a day is as harmful to the lungs as smoking a pack or more per day.