Brain stimulation shows promise in reducing fatigue for post-stroke patients
A painless and non-invasive pulse of electrical stimulation to specific brain areas can ease some symptoms of post-stroke ...
STAT15d
Former NIH director Francis Collins, once beloved in Washington, now worries for his safety there
The incident was witnessed by a reporter from STAT, and the man afterward identified himself only as “Jeff” and said he was there to protest Collins’ oversight of NIH, and specifically the ...
New York Post16d
People with this blood type are 16% more likely to have a stroke before the age 60
Not to B-negative, but your blood type could offer a clue to your risk of having a stroke before 60. “The number of people with early strokes is rising,” said Dr. Steven J. Kittner ...
BMJ20d
Ischaemic stroke: the ocular motor system as a sensitive marker for motor and cognitive recovery
Methods 15 patients (mean age 60.6 years, mean National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score 2.25) and 10 age matched control subjects (mean age 63.3 years) participated in the study. We ...
STAT21d
Some NIH study sections will resume grant reviews, but final funding decisions are still in limbo
Dozens of NIH study sections — meetings in which panels of expert scientists consider which research projects the agency should support — have been canceled in recent weeks, after the Trump ...
verywellhealth22d
Signs and Symptoms of Stroke
Strokes are treatable, so it is important to be able to recognize a stroke so that you can get the right emergency treatment as quickly as possible. If you see or experience any of the following ...
Nature27d
NIH turmoil sparks anxiety over future of its global grants
Researchers worldwide who are funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) — the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research — are facing uncertainty about the future of their ...
University of California27d
What cuts to NIH funding mean for cancer patients and their families
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the main federal agency for medical research ... In healthy cells, a protein called MYC helps guide the process of transcription, in which genetic information ...
Wired28d
DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System
WIRED reporting shows not only which DOGE members are at the NIH but also the sensitive financial system at least some of them have access to. Government records reviewed by WIRED show that the ...
Bethesda Magazine28d
Federal judge extends order blocking ‘devastating’ cap on NIH research payments
Maryland was one of more than 20 states who sued the Trump administration over NIH payments in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. National Institutes of Health, and also one of more than 20 states ...
The Hill28d
NIH funding cuts imperil lifesaving drugs and US prosperity
In 1972, testicular cancer was a leading killer of young men — almost uniformly fatal. Today, it has a 90 percent survival rate. The drug responsible for this miraculous reversal, Cisplatin ...
Mother Jones29d
NIH Is Again Throttling Research Funding in Defiance of a Federal Court Order
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still blocking most ongoing ... heart disease prevention, stroke intervention, and other potentially life-saving topics. David Moorman, a brain ...