Gum disease by the numbers
[Introduction] Gum (or periodontal) disease is one of the leading threats to dental health. It’s typically caused by poor brushing and flossing habits that allow plaque—a sticky film of bacteria—toRead More
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From bench to bedside: Researchers of NIH’s Clinical Center
[Introduction] NIH’s Clinical Center is divided into two parts. One side is a hospital for patients. The other side includes offices and labs where researchers like John Tisdale, M.D., andRead More
A path to hope for sickle cell disease
Deidra Flowers-Williams realized in elementary school that she couldn’t do the same things as other kids her age. She was diagnosed with sickle cell disease before she was 6 monthsRead More
Sickle cell disease: What you should know
What is it? Sickle cell disease is a group of red blood cell disorders passed by genes from parents to their children. People with the disease have abnormal hemoglobin, aRead More
Is a widely available cure for sickle cell disease on the horizon?
When the pain from sickle cell disease became too much, Kirti Dasu often went to the nearest hospital emergency room. Those days are gone. Today the 29-year-old Syracuse University studentRead More
Rare gene mutation may have link to common cold
Colds seem harder to escape as the temperature drops and people spend more time indoors. They are also not well understood by doctors and scientists. Recently though, NIH-supported research foundRead More
New treatment approved for HER2-positive breast cancer
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), approximately 15 percent of patients with breast cancer have tumors thatRead More
Progress against Zika
From 2015 to 2016, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus a world health crisis. The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has been leading theRead More
From Lyme disease to art and advocacy
Bruce Davidson always enjoyed the outdoors. He owned and operated a landscape contracting business in the early 2000s in Boxborough, Massachusetts. It was this job and location that put himRead More