Sleuthing the Microbiome Reveals Undercover Agents of Oncogenesis
The annual Astute Clinician Lecture was established in 1998 through a gift from the late Dr. Robert W. Miller and his wife, Haruko. It honors U.S. scientists who have observed unusual clinical occurrences and, by investigating them, have opened an important new avenue of research. The lectureship exemplifies how astute clinical observations can lead to innovative research. Speakers are proposed by members of the Medical Executive Committee (MEC) with voting for the top three candidates. Selection from this slate of candidates is made by the NIH Director. An expert in foodborne and intestinal infections, Cynthia Sears is ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Researcher points to location where tooth fragment would be located
Nicolas Delsol, a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History, points to the approximate position in a horse skull where a tooth fragment, recovered from an archaeological site in Haiti, would have been located. Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History unearthed ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 3, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: video

A tooth fragment recovered from an archaeological site in Haiti
is weighed and measured. DNA analyses revealed the tooth belonged to a horse that lived during the 16th century, making it the oldest ever sequenced for a domesticated horse from the Americas. Researchers at the Florida Museum of ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 3, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: video

Bending the Arc: Film Screening and Discussion
NIH is hosting a screening of " Bending the Arc " that will be followed by a conversation between NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group. The film illustrates how Dr. Kim, doctor and humanitarian Paul Farmer, activist Ophelia Dahl, and local communities delivered world-class care for complicated diseases such as multidrug resistant tuberculosis and HIV, in the most impoverished of settings in Haiti.Air date: 3/12/2018 2:30:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: The Varicella Virus, the Old and the New
Many U.S. children are vaccinated against varicella, but in Haiti, vaccination is neither mandatory nor widespread. This video shows several patients with typical varicella presentations. Find out more in Dr. Mellick’s blog and video at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - January 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video