Can you figure out the common link between: being older than 45, giving birth to a baby that weighs more than 9 pounds and high blood pressure? They are all risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes This month is National Diabetes Awareness Month, a time when health organizations try to raise awareness about risk factors, … Read more
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.
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. Richard Groves manages a public library outside Nashville, TN where he connects people with the information- both educational and recreational- that improves their lives. I work in a … 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. Krista Cook has four higher-education degrees, three in government (B.A., M.P.A., and Ph.D) and she recently finished up a fourth in library/information science (M.L.S.) at Emporia State University. … Read more
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For children being treated for HIV in less developed countries, monitoring to predict the occurrence of serious HIV-related illnesses is most accurate if it includes a measure of HIV levels in the blood, according to a National Institutes of Health study conducted throughout Latin America.
Eighteen NIH grantees and two intramural scientists have been selected by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to be among this year’s 120 researchers to receive this presidential award, the nation’s highest honor for scientists at the beginning of their professional careers.
Just in time for the holiday travel season, the Transportation Security Administration has come under fire about whether its Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machines store images, its pat-down procedures for toddlers are too harsh and many other concerns about airport screening. In response, TSA’s Administrator John S. Pistole has released a statement and TSA’s Blogger … Read more
Medicare, NIH adds first images to major research database: The National Institutes of Health has expanded a genetic and clinical research database to give researchers access to the first digital study images. The National Eye Institute (NEI), in collaboration with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), has made available more than 72,000 lens photographs … Read more
Very low birthweight Down syndrome infants are at higher risk for disorders of the heart and lungs than are very low birthweight infants who do not have a chromosomal variation, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health research network.
Frequent hemodialysis improved left ventricular mass (heart size) and self-reported physical health compared to conventional hemodialysis for kidney failure, according to the Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN) Daily Trial funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Results were published online Nov. 20, 2010, in the New England Journal … Read more
Thanksgiving is tomorrow – do you feel like this year has just flown by? I have to admit, I am not a big Thanksgiving meal person. I don’t get up early, stuff turkey and have it cook for hours with a nice place setting at the dinner table. I am the “let’s buy everything and … Read more
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