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HOUSTON (MedPage Today) -- Caloric restriction failed to improve outcomes in ventilator-dependent patients with acute lung injury, results of an NIH-sponsored, multicenter trial showed.

(Saint Louis University) New NIH-funded research points investigators toward finding a genital herpes vaccine that works on both viruses that cause disease.

(National Science Foundation) New research aimed at controlling the transmission of diseases among humans, other animals and the environment is being made possible by grants from a collaboration among US and UK funding agencies.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- From fiscal battles to the role of the NIH in drug development, Francis Collins, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health, offered frank opinions as he reviewed the pressing issues challenging the nation's premier research community with MedPage Today in this exclusive video.

(NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse) An analysis of national prescribing patterns shows that more than half of patients who received an opioid prescription in 2009 had filled another opioid prescription within the previous 30 days.

This report also suggested potential opportunities for intervention aimed at reducing abuse of prescription opioids.

Researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a component of the National Institutes of Health, will publish results of this analysis in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

The National Institutes of Health will announce Tuesday that four additional lines of human embryonic stem cells are now eligible for federal funding, including the most widely used line.

The District government and the National Institutes of Health on Monday announced the launch of a $26.4 million initiative to attack the city's HIV/AIDS epidemic with expanded testing and treatment to reduce the level of the virus in its victims and hopefully decrease their chances of spreading t...

(NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) Members of the media are invited to attend a press availability period at noon on Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, that will follow a scientific meeting evaluating the safety of soy infant formula.

NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- A restrictive transfusion policy reduced blood use by 50% and posed no increased hazards to older patients with cardiovascular disease who were undergoing surgery for hip fracture, data from an NIH-funded study showed.

The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists under a new policy designed to dramatically expand government support for one of the most promising but also most contentious fields of biomedical research.