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Research Feature
Here’s something that might surprise: blood transfusions are the most common medical procedure in the United States, with millions of Americans receiving them each year. They help save lives and that’s in part because the nation’s supplies of donated blood are safer than ever from pathogens such as HIV, hepatitis viruses, and Zika, researchers say....
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Research Feature
Advances in Congenital Heart Disease Research Are Helping Kids Thrive In 1949 when the National Heart Institute—not yet the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute—began awarding research grants in pediatric cardiovascular disease, among the first was to a surgeon named Alfred Blalock, M.D. With his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University—Helen...
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Research Feature
Visit highlights enormous strides in congenital heart disease research Fifty years ago, amid national protests over the war in Vietnam and giddy anticipation of man’s first walk on the moon, Gladys and Thomas Kaminski drove up to the gates of the National Institutes of Health, holding out hope for a miracle. Tom Kaminski, 7, with his father in 1969...
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News Release
A new study provides evidence to support a simple measurement for diagnosing clinically significant airflow obstruction, the key characteristic of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. The study found that a 70% ratio of two indicators of lung function proved as or more accurate than...
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