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Dr. Tracie Harrison, assistant professor of nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, has received $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health for a study comparing experiences of women with disabilities.

Harrison wants to look at white and Hispanic women ages 55-75 to compare how women developed mobility impairment and how it impacts their [...]

Teen pregnancies rose in the United States for the first time since 1991, the National Institutes of Health reported Friday.

What's the right thing to say to someone with cancer? Dr. Bernadine Healy, former chief of the National Institutes of Health and herself a brain cancer survivor, says there's such a thing as cancer etiquette.

"I found as a patient, sometimes people are awkward and they'll say the strangest things to you," said Healy.

Her advice: Put yourself in their shoes.

A biomedical engineering assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute grant to conduct nanoparticle cancer research.

Grant recipient James Tunnell says the five-year project will include collaboration with other researchers from the university, M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University [...]

Dr. Maria Croyle, associate professor of pharmaceutics at The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, has received $2.6 million to develop a vaccine against Ebola virus infection.

With grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Research and Technology Initiative, Croyle will lead an international research team to study the immune responses [...]

A government laptop housing the medical information of 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen, potentially exposing personal data.

The computer was stolen in February from the trunk of a car driven by a lab chief of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, ...

AP - An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease.