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(Office of Naval Research) Influential leaders from the medical and research communities held high-level discussions on biomedical science and technology (S&T) initiatives at the Office of Naval Research, Sept. 16.

The one-day event featured a lineup of dynamic senior Navy leaders, including Navy Surgeon General Vice Adm.

Adam M. Robinson Jr. and Rear Adm. Matthew Nathan, commander of Navy Medicine National Capital Area and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

(University of Minnesota) The University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences will host a major conference on "Should We Return Research Results and Incidental Findings from Genomic Biobanks & Archives," from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thursday, May 19, Bethesda, Md.

BETHESDA, Md. (MedPage Today) -- With members citing unanswered safety questions, an FDA advisory panel today narrowly rejected approval of the nation's first cell-based influenza vaccine -- an alternative to vaccines produced by the traditional, time-consuming method of growing the virus in eggs.

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work.

After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of them do....

BETHESDA, Md. (MedPage Today) -- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has terminated a clinical trial of concentrated saline for trauma patients in shock, after interim results indicated no benefit for the treatment.

BETHESDA, Md. - Both cancer incidence and overall death rates are edging down in the U.S., driven largely by declines in some of the most common malignancies, according to an annual national report.

BETHESDA, Md. -- For nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, an investigational poxvirus-based PSA vaccine given before second-line hormone therapy, rather than the reverse approach, might confer a survival advantage, researchers here found.