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Joncita Todechine, a mother of four who lives on the Navajo Nation, knows all too well what can trigger asthma symptoms in her daughter Ashley. But she didn’t always. She recalls a time in 2013, living in Phoenix and attending medical assistant school, when she rushed her then-three-year-old to the Indian Medical Center. “She was really sick,”...
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Is the randomized registry trial the next “disruptive technology” in clinical research? That is the question posed and discussed by Dr. Michael Lauer , director of the NHLBI’s Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, and co-author Dr. Ralph B. D’Agostino from Boston University and the Harvard Clinical Research Institute in their recent New England...
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has launched an $87.2 million international research program to extend a highly successful program assessing blood banking and transfusion medicine. Research conducted under the seven-year program will focus on improving transfusion benefits and reducing its...
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The NHLBI and Sickle Cell Disease The NHLBI has researched sickle cell disease since its founding as the National Heart Institute in 1948. Since 1972, when the National Sickle Cell Anemia Control act was passed, the NHLBI has spent more than $1 billion researching the condition. The NHLBI funds basic research and large clinical trials and conducts...
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Gene Scan IDs Heart Disease Risk
High blood cholesterol and triglycerides are known risk factors for heart disease. However, it is unclear how much of the risk for either is inherited. To address this question, scientists analyzed DNA from more than 100,000 people in a search for genetic...
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Nine studies focus on heart, lung, and blood diseases The National Institutes of Health has funded nine new studies that will develop induced pluripotent stem cells , or iPS cells, from patients with genetic variations that have been associated with coronary artery disease, pulmonary hypertension, clotting disorders, diabetes, and other conditions...
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has launched a program to help translate basic discoveries into successful treatments. The Science Moving towArds Research Translation and Therapy program, or SMARTT, will support the transition of potential new therapies for heart, lung, and blood diseases from discovery in the lab to the...
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Scientific advances that benefit the public health are only as good as their ability to reach the public. Oftentimes, though, the people most at need for those interventions and advances–such as inner city African-American communities—are also the most difficult to reach.
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The human heart is an amazing biological machine controlled by an internal electrical system that produces about 100,000 beats a day. When abnormal electrical activity causes the heart to beat too quickly, too slowly, or erratically, the condition is called an arrhythmia . Although most arrhythmias are harmless, some can interfere with the heart's...