Feb 24 Watch 5:40 Feeding infants peanuts could reverse dramatic allergy rise, study finds By PBS News Hour Since 1997, the estimated percentage of children in the U.S. who are allergic to peanuts has quadrupled. A new study challenges conventional wisdom, suggesting that introducing peanuts into infants’ diets could prevent allergies later on. Jeffrey Brown learns more from… Continue watching
Feb 19 A detailed new map of our genome in action By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Your genome contains thousands of genes, possible instructions that build your cells. So how do cells know which genes to use? A set of markers called the epigenome tells them which genes to turn on and off. But if they… Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch 7:43 A push to use the human genome to make medicine more precise By PBS News Hour President Obama introduced a new plan to create a database of genetic information of a million Americans in order to better tailor medical treatments for groups of patients. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien interviews Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes… Continue watching
Jan 01 Mimicking real-life experience for alcoholics, NIH transforms lab into a bar to test treatment By Lauren Neergaard, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The tequila sure looks real, so do the beer taps. Inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are testing a possible new treatment to help heavy drinkers cut back -- using a replica of a… Continue reading
Dec 16 More teens use e-cigarettes than tobacco ones, survey reveals By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Electronic cigarettes have surpassed traditional smoking in popularity among teens, the government’s annual drug use survey finds. Continue reading
Nov 27 Watch Is an Ebola vaccine on the horizon? By PBS News Hour For the first time, an experimental vaccine taken by 20 healthy adults is successfully and safely stimulating an immunity against Ebola. Judy Woodruff talks to Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health on how the vaccine was developed and… Continue watching
Oct 24 Dallas Nurse declared Ebola free, released from hospital By Tik Root The first nurse in the U.S. diagnosed with Ebola, Nina Pham, is now free of the virus and set to be released, National Institutes of Health officials said today. Continue reading
Oct 16 First nurse to contract Ebola in Dallas being flown to Maryland By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The revelation that a second Dallas nurse who is ill with Ebola was cleared to fly the day before her diagnosis raised new alarms as leaders of the nation's public health system prepared to defend their efforts to… Continue reading
Sep 02 A third American reportedly infected with Ebola By Joshua Barajas The National Institutes of Health will begin testing an experimental Ebola vaccine on an initial 20 adult humans this week, as the lethal virus’ reach “continues to accelerate” in West Africa. Continue reading
Aug 28 Ebola outbreak could affect 20,000 people before it’s over By Ayan Sheikh, Sarah McHaney Controlling the epidemic could cost $490 million and will need the help of thousands of local health workers and hundreds of international experts. Continue reading