National Institutes Of Health

Study: Dementia Care Costs US Nearly $215 Billion Per Year, Expected To Double By 2040

The cost of care for Americans living with dementia reaches nearly $215 billion annually.

2013/04/04

President Obama is set to announce a broad new research initiative to map and explore the human brain. (Photo credit MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama Set To Announce Federal Initiative To Map The Human Brain

President Obama has announced a broad new research initiative to map and explore the human brain.

2013/04/02

File photo of a researcher examining stem cells through a microscope. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)

Scientists Say Baby Born With HIV Apparently Cured

A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.

2013/03/04

Scientists believe a cure was found for a baby born afflicted with AIDS. (JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Scientists Report Baby Born With AIDS Possibly Cured Of Virus

A baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.

2013/03/03

Former NFL Player Seau Had Brain Disease CTE

Junior Seau, one of the NFL’s best and fiercest players for nearly two decades, had a degenerative brain disease when he committed suicide last May, the National Institutes of Health told The Associated Press on Thursday.

2013/01/10

File photo of onlookers standing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Court Won’t Stop Embryonic Stem Cell Research

The Supreme Court won’t stop the government’s funding of embryonic stem cell research, despite some researchers’ complaints that the work relies on destroyed human embryos.

2013/01/07

James Holmes - Arapahoe County, Colorado courtroom - Monday, July 23, 2012. (Credit: RJ Sangosti-Pool/Getty Images)

James Holmes Received $26K Grant From Bethesda-Based National Institutes of Health

NIH gave the graduate student a $26,000 stipend and paid his tuition for the highly competitive program in Neuroscience at the University of Colorado in Denver.

2012/07/24