National Institutes Of Health

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) will sharply curtail medical research studies using chimpanzees, humans' closest relative in the animal kingdom, after an expert panel said such studies are rarely warranted.NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said on Thursday ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Use of chimpanzees in government-funded medical research should be strictly limited, reserved only for studies where no suitable alternative is available or where testing in people would be unethical, a U.S. expert panel said on Thursday.The Institute of Medicine, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clean cookstoves that burn more efficiently and channel smoke outside could save millions of lives around the world, but only if the cooks themselves are part of the solution, scientists reported on Thursday.The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (http://cleancookstoves.org), ...

Bangalore (Reuters) - Companies that make the gene-sequencing devices used in scientific research face a tough few years as potential cuts to the U.S. federal budget squeeze funding to its main academic and research customers.As the high cost of sequencing deters commercial ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Institutes of Health revised on Tuesday its 16-year-old conflict of interest rules for medical researchers, lowering the amount of money that constitutes a financial conflict and expanding the required disclosures.The 1995 regulations effectively put responsibility for tracking ...

Black scientists lag behind whites in US government funded research grants with a 10 percentage point gap between the two that cannot be explained by education or experience, a study said Thursday.The National Institutes of Health, which funnels more than 30 billion ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Black researchers are significantly less likely to win grant funding from the National Institutes of Health than white applicants, according to a study published on Thursday, and the director of the agency says it will take action to address ...

US scientists have devised a drug-disease matchmaking program that mines databases for potentially useful new treatment combinations and has turned up two so far, said a study on Wednesday.For instance, a drug commonly used to alleviate ulcers has shown promise against lung ...

A battle by animal rights activists to save 14 chimpanzees from science and medical testing may well sound the death knell for all US medical experiments on these primates.Rights and ethics groups led by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) have ...

Cellphone use appeared to measurably increase brain activity in dozens of test subjects in a new study, though it failed to resolve a debate over whether the devices pose health risks.The study in Wednesday's edition of The Journal of the American Medical ...

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Topic: National Institutes Of Health

U.S. agrees to limit medical research on chimpanzees

Chimp research rarely warranted: U.S. expert panel

To push clean cookstoves, involve the cooks, report says

Analysis: Gene sequencers face govt budget squeeze

National Institutes of Health revises conflict of interest rules

Blacks get less science funding than whites: US study

Blacks win fewer health research grants in U.S.

Data 'matchmaker' finds new uses for drugs

Activists fight to save chimps from return to US labs

Cellphone use yields more 'active' brain scan: study

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