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Obama to seek more Alzheimer's research money Associated Press

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) welcomes six new members to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

The council serves as the principal advisory body to NCCAM, the lead federal agency for research on complementary medicine, and a component of the National Institutes of Health.

(NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) Adding the acid reflux drug lansoprazole to a standard inhaled steroid treatment for asthma does not improve asthma control in children who have no symptom of acid reflux, according to a new study funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Lansoprazole therapy slightly increased the risk of sore throats and other respiratory problems in children, however

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Prostate cancer is the most frequent and second deadliest cancer men face.

A team of Wayne State University researchers recently received $363,660 from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health for the project -- "Bone-induced c-kit in prostate cancer cells: implications for bone metastasis" -- that aims to shed new light on implications for bone metastasis in prostate cancer.

(NIH/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases) Researchers at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, have developed a new way to see structures within viruses that were not clearly seen before.

Their findings are reported in the Jan. 13 issue of Science.

Argentine leader undergoes thyroid cancer surgery Associated Press

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who attend regular education classes may be more likely to improve their social skills if their typically developing peers are taught how to interact with them than if only the children with ASD are taught such skills.

According to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, a shift away from more commonly used interventions that focus on training children with ASD directly may provide greater social benefits for children with ASD.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Researchers have discovered a group of chemical compounds that might one day be developed into drugs that can treat malaria infection in both the liver and the bloodstream.

The study, which appears in the Nov. 18 issue of Science, was led by Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Ph.D., of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and was partially funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Researchers at Wayne State University recently received funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to study a novel antibiotic that may treat VRE infection and decrease mortality.

This nearly $430,000 grant led by Michael J.

Geron's exit symbolic ding for stem cell research Associated Press