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- NIH Researchers Find Many People Want Secondary Genomic Findings After Initially Refusing
- NTP Update - July 2021 now available
- NTP Annual Report - Fiscal Year 2020 now available
- Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting - August 4, 2021
- Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods Meeting - September 28-29, 2021
- NTP Update - June 2021 now available
- Male Hormones Regulate Stomach Inflammation in MiceGlucocorticoids and androgens promote a healthy stomach pit by inhibiting inflammation, left, while their absence promotes inflammation and SPEM seen in a diseased pit, right. SPEM glands are also much larger than healthy stomach glands. (Photo courtesy of Jonathan Busada, Ph.D./NIEHS) Scientists at the National Institutes of Health determined t...
- Oregon State Researchers Discover New Class of Cancer Fighting Compounds
- NTP Update - May 2021 now available
- NIH Statement on World Asthma Day 2021
- NIH Statement on World Asthma Day 2021An asthma inhaler. (Photo courtesy of NIAID) On World Asthma Day, the National Institutes of Health reaffirms its commitment to research to improve the lives of people with asthma. More than 25 million people in the United States have asthma, including 5.1 million children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This chroni...
- Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting - June 8, 2021