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NIH Slated for 7 percent Budget Cut
The President has proposed a $38.7 billion budget for the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year (FY) 2021. This translates to a $3 billion or 7 percent cut in the agency’s funding compared to FY 2020.
The NIH budget request includes a $50 million initiative to use artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a better understanding of the causes of chronic diseases and to identify early treatments. This plan is in line with the Administration’s “Industries of the Future” effort, which supports using and developing AI across sectors.
The budget would provide $50 million for the Childhood Cancer ...
Source: Public Policy Reports - February 18, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
President Slashes NIH Funding by 13 percent
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) would receive $34.4 billion in FY 2020, roughly $4.7 billion or 13 percent below the levels enacted by Congress for FY 2019, according to the President’s Budget released on March 11.
The budget for NIH includes $492 million in funding made available through the 21st Century Cures Act and $150 million in mandatory funding. The leading biomedical research agency in the world would receive budget cuts across the board. All NIH centers are slated for budget reductions:
National Cancer Institute: -8.7 percent
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: -14 percent
National Inst...
Source: Public Policy Reports - March 19, 2019 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
3 Surprising Things That Increase Your Dementia Risk
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“As many as five million Americans age 65 and older may have Alzheimer’s Disease, and that number is expected to double for every five-year interval beyond age 65.” — the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke.
While Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, it is not the only form.
Risk factors for all kinds of dementia include, age, alcohol use, smoking, atherosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, and genetics. However, researchers have found some startling connections that show other surprising factors that can heighten your risk:
Risk Factor #1: Anticho...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Environmental Pollution: An Under-recognized Threat to Children’s Health, Especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Conclusions
Patterns of disease are changing rapidly in LMICs. Pollution-related chronic diseases are becoming more common. This shift presents a particular problem for children, who are proportionately more heavily exposed than are adults to environmental pollutants and for whom these exposures are especially dangerous. Better quantification of environmental exposures and stepped-up efforts to understand how to prevent exposures that cause disease are needed in LMICs and around the globe.
To confront the global problem of disease caused by pollution, improved programs of public health monitoring and environmental protecti...
Source: EHP Research - March 1, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Brief Communication March 2016 Source Type: research
Low to moderate quality evidence demonstrates the potential benefits and adverse events of cannabinoids for certain medical indications
Commentary on: Whiting PF, Wolff RF, Deshpande S, et al.. Cannabinoids for medical use: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA 2015;313:2456–73. Context As of September 2015, 23 states and the District of Columbia in the USA legalised the medicinal use of marijuana, underscoring the need for physicians to understand the science underlying medical marijuana as well as the practical issues associated with it. For years policymakers, scientists and physicians alike have debated the potential risks associated with marijuana use.1 Now marijuana's utility as a treatment for certain medical indications has taken focus....
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - January 22, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Hill, K. P., Hurley-Welljams-Dorof, W. M. Tags: Sexual transmitted infections (viral), Clinical trials (epidemiology), General practice / family medicine, Genetics, Immunology (including allergy), HIV/AIDS, Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric), Pain (neurology), Sleep disorders (neurology), Stroke, Ophthalmolo Source Type: research
Medtech approvals: FDA releases August 2015 PMAs
The FDA today released its list of the pre-market approvals it granted for medical devices in August 2015:
Summary of PMA Originals & Supplements Approved
Originals: 2
Supplements: 70
Summary of PMA Originals Under Review
Total Under Review: 57
Total Active: 28
Total On Hold: 29
Summary of PMA Supplements Under Review
Total Under Review: 569
Total Active: 422
Total On Hold: 147
Summary of All PMA Submissions
Originals: 5
Supplements: 90
Summary of PMA Supplement PMA Approval/Denial Decision Times
Number of Approvals: 70
Number of Denials: 0
Average Days Fr Receipt to Decision (Total Time): 229.0
FDA Time: 130...
Source: Mass Device - October 23, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Pre-Market Approval (PMA) Regulatory/Compliance Source Type: news
The Quality Of Health Care You Receive Likely Depends On Your Skin Color
Unequal health care continues to be a serious problem for black Americans. More than a decade after the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report showing that minority patients were less likely to receive the same quality health care as white patients, racial and ethnic disparities continue to plague the U.S. health care system. That report, which was published in 2002, indicated that even when both groups had similar insurance or the same ability to pay for care, black patients received inferior treatment to white patients. This still hold true, according to our investigation into dozens of studies about black health...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
For most children with HIV and low immune cell count, cells rebound after treatment
UCLA Health Sciences
Dr. Paul Krogstad
Most children with HIV who have low levels of a key immune cell eventually recover levels of this cell after they begin treatment, according to a new study conducted by researchers at UCLA and other institutions in the U.S. and Brazil.
The researchers were funded by the National Institutes of Health.
“We were pleased to find that the vast majority of children experience immune system recovery with effective therapy,” said Dr. Paul Krogstad, professor of pediatric infectious diseases and of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and t...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 26, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Decrease Seen in Non - COVID - 19 - Related Hospitalizations at Peak
Caseload of common medical emergencies, including acute MI, ischemic stroke also decreased
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - November 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Gastroenterology, Gynecology, Infections, AIDS, Internal Medicine, Allergy, Emergency Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology, Nursing, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, ENT, Pediatrics, Psy Source Type: news
Recent HIV/AIDS News from NIAID and NIH
February 25, 2014: NIH Expands Focus of Research Funding Opportunity Targeting HIV Reservoirs
“The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the National Institute of Mental Health, both part of the National Institutes of Health, recently expanded the scientific scope of an HIV-cure related funding announcement to allow for a broader range of studies and approaches.
“Specifically, the funding opportunity 'Targeting Persistent HIV Reservoirs,' which was originally issued February 17, 2012, has been significantly expanded to allow for 'proposed basic research into the cellular an...
Source: AIDSinfo At-a-Glance: Offering Information on HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention, and Research, A Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - February 28, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a sharp knife to it!
A 74 year–old woman presented in December 2011 with left sided cerebellar symptoms. She was initially diagnosed as having a posterior circulation infarction and discharged from hospital on appropriate medication. However, over the following month she continued to deteriorate, developing increasing unsteadiness, falls, nausea and vomiting. Following a second admission in January 2012 she had a single seizure and developed focal left sided myoclonus affecting mainly the upper limb. Over the following month the myoclonus spread to affect all four limbs, although it remained more prominent on the left side. There was evi...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - October 9, 2013 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Dobson, R., McMillan, A., Kung, K., Thom, M., Davis, A., Simister, R., Giovannoni, G., Gnanapavan, S. Tags: Immunology (including allergy), HIV/AIDS, Tropical medicine (infectious diseases), Brain stem / cerebellum, Epilepsy and seizures, Infection (neurology), Multiple sclerosis, Stroke, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Surgical diagnostic tests Association of Brit Source Type: research
Republished: Mainstreaming HIV services for men who have sex with men: the role of general practitioners
Mainstreaming HIV services for men who have sex with men: The role of general practitioners General practitioners (GPs) and other primary care doctors around the world have a strong potential for providing quality HIV prevention, testing and treatment for men who have sex with men, as advocated by the recent WHO guideline.1 As the HIV epidemic becomes more focused on chronic disease care in many parts of the world, a number of primary care issues come to the forefront of clinical HIV service delivery. GPs have advantages in providing HIV services because of their position as trusted, community-based, long-term advocates fo...
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 12, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Wong, W. C. W., Kidd, M. R., Tucker, J. D. Tags: Liver disease, Sexual transmitted infections (viral), General practice / family medicine, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, Stroke, Hypertension, Communication, Ethics, Legal and forensic medicine Republished editoria Source Type: research
