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Challenging your brain helps keep it healthy—here’s how to do it

“Exercise your brain,” experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description. Do a crossword puzzle a day, and you may just get good at ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Low-dose lithium may protect your brain from verbal memory loss

A study published in Nature on August 6, 2025, found that lithium is the only metal significantly depleted in the prefrontal ...
Seattle Times

Seattle NIH money was under attack. Now it’s at a record high

Nine months ago, Sen. Patty Murray held a media event at Seattle Children’s hospital to highlight the dire state of the National Institutes of Health. Thousands of NIH employees had been fired. The ...
Becker's Hospital Review

NIH updates ‘clinical trial’ definition: What to know

The National Institutes of Health will no longer categorize basic experimental studies involving humans (BESH) as clinical trials, according to a Jan. 29 announcement from the agency. BESH ...
Inside Higher Ed

NIH Avoided Funding Cuts. But It Lacks Permanent Leaders in Top Posts.

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. More than a year into the second Trump administration, the National Institutes of Health looks, in ...
Ars Technica

NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution

At the end of January, Washington, DC, saw an extremely unusual event. The MAHA Institute, which was set up to advocate for some of the most profoundly unscientific ideas of our time, hosted leaders ...
The New York Times

Why U.S. Car Companies Want to Make Giant Batteries

Even as American automakers have scaled back their ambitions for electric vehicles, some are pivoting to a technology that could help boost renewable energy. By Claire Brown Last year was a tough one ...
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Strategies to Enhance Pediatric Health Research Funded by NIH

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to examine pediatric research supported by NIH. The ...
Healio

Medical organizations call for ‘swift passage’ of $48.7 billion of funding for NIH

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. A proposed bill by the U.S. House and Senate committees ...
Nature

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026

Crucial grant-review panels for more than half of the institutes that make up the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are on track to lose all their voting members within the year. Federal law ...
The Washington Post

NIH says it will stop funding research using human fetal tissue

The National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, announced Thursday that it would no longer support research that utilizes fetal tissue donated to ...