This is a two-part blog on getting better organized for the New Year. Part 1 is on getting paperwork organized. Part 2 will be on clearing out the clutter. As I head into 2011 and I look at the stacks of paperwork from 2010 (receipts, warranties, insurance documents, copies of bills, and a host of … Read more
The National Institutes of Health, along with partners at Dartmouth College and the Department of Veterans Affairs, is pleased to present a free annual training opportunity to help develop journalists’ ability to critically evaluate and report on medical research.
Battling Seasonal Affective Disorder
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!! This week, my favorite stores are having major after-Christmas sales so that they can get rid of their extra inventory. As the frugal (read: cheap) fashionista I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve also been thinking about a few other consumer issues that are particularly relevant this time … Read more
Investigators at the National Institutes of Health have observed that the survival rate of people with a rare immunodeficiency disease called chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is greatly improved when even very low levels of microbe-killing molecules are present. Because production of these molecules, made by an enzyme called NADPH oxidase, can be predicted from genetic … Read more
First Look at Census 2010 Data
Teen marijuana use increases, especially among eighth-graders
Medicaid can make it possible for you to get the care that you need
The Future of Product Safety
Information about Replacing a Medicare Card
LIHEAP Can Help You Survive the Cold
The clear, curved lens at the front of your eye may be one of the first parts of your body to show signs of age
Medicare Fraud HEAT Task Force Operations
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Wright Brothers Day
Older Adults Volunteer in the Fight Against Medicare Fraud
Scientists today published catalogs of the fruit fly and roundworm’s functional genomic elements: DNA sequences in the genome that carry the instructions and determine which genes are turned on and off at various times in different cells.