The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is today releasing initial results from a large-scale test of screening methods to reduce deaths from lung cancer by detecting cancers at relatively early stages.
The Heart Truth campaign to raise awareness about women’s heart disease takes the spotlight at The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, where The Heart Truth Founding Ambassador Laura Bush recently unveiled the latest installment of the First Ladies Red Dress Collection. The exhibit features red dresses and suits on loan from the presidential libraries … Read more
For our third birthday we launched the Share Your Story: GovGab Guest Writer Challenge. We’re proud to showcase our winning posts, which will run this whole week. Sandy Pon is a librarian with the Foundation Center who likes musicals, the scent of tea olive blooms, southern Arizona sunsets, and sunny days with temperatures in the … Read more
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I ate so much I still feel as big as one of those Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. With Thanksgiving over, it’s time to get down to the serious business of getting ready for the winter Holidays. Check out our Holiday page. It features links to tips … Read more
I actually have some Facebook friends who have posted that they are finished with Christmas shopping already! Are they kidding? If I posted that sort of thing, my sisters would definitely be duct taping me to a chair, asking “What have you done with our sister?” and checking to see if there is an empty, … Read more
For our third birthday we launched the Share Your Story: GovGab Guest Writer Challenge. We wanted to announce today that the winners have been chosen and the winning posts will run tomorrow until Friday. We think we have a pretty good line up of entertaining and informative posts for you this week, and we hope … Read more
NIH Clinical Center Nursing and Patient Care Services will host a pre-conference, Clinical Research Nursing (CRN) 2010: Nursing Practice at America’s Research Hospital, and co-host the Second-Annual International Association of Clinical Research Nurses (IACRN) Conference. The events focus on the specialty of clinical research nursing. Members of the press are invited to attend both at … Read more
Happy Thanksgiving GovGab Readers! Here at GovGab we’ve tried to give you all the information you need to make this Thanksgiving great. We’ve shared recipe ideas, tips for making your holiday travel less stressful and some pointers on Black Friday shopping. I hope by now you’ve safely made it to your destination so you can … Read more
A drug used decades ago to treat high blood pressure has been shown to improve learning and memory in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The study found that the drug, diazoxide, acted on nerve … Read more
Video from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – Congratulations to Dr. Mortimer Mishkin, recipient of the National Medal of Science. Dr. Mishkin becomes the first National Institute of Mental Health intramural scientist to receive this honor. In this video Dr. Mishkin talks about his five decades of research at NIMH.
For our third birthday we launched the Share Your Story: GovGab Guest Writer Challenge. We’re proud to showcase our winning posts, which will run this whole week. Jennifer Miller is a Palace Acquire Federal Career Intern by day and a University of Alabama graduate student by night. She’s quite busy but loves it. She emphasizes … Read more
Today is World Freedom Day, commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. After the fall of the wall, borders opened, and free elections took place in eastern Europe. The Cold War seems so distant to me now, even though it is recent history. Who could forget President Ronald Reagan’s famous “Tear … Read more
I have two cats and a mouse as pets, but I don’t want the mouse. I have always said that the mouse that tried to live in our apartment would be the least intelligent animal ever but it turns out he’s probably one of the smartest–right up there with Flipper, Lassie and that horse that could do arithmetic simply because he … Read more
The number of Americans who report being aware of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, increased by 4 percentage points between 2008 and 2010, but many people at risk are still unaware of the disease, according to mailed survey results released today by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National … Read more
More than 30 experts from around the world are scheduled to present Nov. 16-17 in Bethesda, Md., at the James B. Herrick Symposium — Sickle Cell Disease Care and Research: Past, Present, and Future. The free event, hosted by the National Institutes of Health, will examine the past century of work toward understanding sickle cell … Read more
With Thanksgiving just a few weeks away, holiday travel season is upon us. That tends to make for a lot of stressed out travelers trying to get to and from their families’ houses or vacation spots as quickly as possible. Whether you’re traveling by air or by car this holiday season, you can use these … Read more
Researchers have discovered mutations in a particular gene that affects the treatment prognosis for some patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer that kills 9,000 Americans annually. The scientists report their results in the Nov. 11, 2010, online issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.