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Going gluten-free: Life with celiac disease
Celiac disease is a digestive condition and autoimmune disorder that affects the small intestine. Celiac disease can also affect the...
Celiac Disease, Nutrition
Breathtaking: Managing a COPD diagnosis
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious lung disease that makes it hard to breathe. It's also known...
COPD
Expanding hearing health care
"What's that you said?" Perhaps you've heard yourself say those words more often than you'd like...
Hearing Disorders and Deafness
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),...
Breast Cancer
Solving the undiagnosed disease puzzle at NIH
Mystery illnesses are not just fodder for television. There are real, undiagnosed illnesses that are important to solve for public...
NIH Highlights
What happens at NIH’s ‘House of Hope’?
"First in Human," a new documentary series from the Discovery Channel, follows four patients at NIH's Clinical Center,...
NIH Highlights
The opioid crisis
Opioid misuse and addiction is a major public health crisis. Opioids, sometimes called narcotics, are a type of drug. They...
Opioid Use Disorder, Opioids, Opioid Overdose
The ABCs of GERD
Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) causes your stomach contents to come back up into your esophagus, causing heartburn or acid reflux. Gastroesophageal...
GERD
Exploring the celiac disease mystery
Most of us know someone on a gluten-free diet. But not all of us know someone who has no choice...
Celiac Disease, Nutrition
Asthma: What you need to know
Asthma is now the most common chronic disorder in childhood. In the U.S., nearly 24 million people have asthma. Asthma...
Asthma
New discovery about middle-age weight gain
A team of scientists has identified an enzyme that promotes weight gain and the loss of exercise capacity starting in...
Weight Control
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...
Common Cold
Predicting autism in high-risk infants
An NIH-supported study has found a tool that may be able to predict which high-risk, 6-month-old infants will develop autism...
Autism Spectrum Disorder
A journey with midlife hearing loss
Stephen Ferranti knew he had to address his hearing loss issues when he realized it could affect his job. As a...
Hearing Disorders and Deafness
Helping others hear better
Lise Hamlin was born with hearing loss in one ear, though she was able to communicate adequately for 30 years. That...
Hearing Disorders and Deafness
Love and life without gluten
Rose Perry and Jack Gottschalk are partners. They also both have celiac disease, an immune condition in which you have...
Celiac Disease, Nutrition
Too 'stubborn' to give in to COPD
"I was blessed with a fine case of the 'stubborns'" says Jim Nelson, a 77-year-old retired accountant living in...
COPD
Don’t let asthma define you
When Sylvia Granados-Maready was born, she was diagnosed with asthma. To this day, Sylvia lives with asthma without letting it...
Asthma
A lifelong asthma struggle
Jeff Long, Ph.D., can hardly remember a time when he didn't suffer from serious asthma. Jeff, who is...
Asthma
The future of asthma monitoring
With so many pollutants indoors and outdoors, determining what triggers asthma in children is not easy. Now, NIH-supported researchers are...
Asthma
NIH launches National COPD Action Plan
James P. Kiley, Ph.D., is the director of the Division of Lung Diseases at NIH's National Heart, Lung,...
COPD
Understanding asthma from the inside out
Three NIH institutes fund asthma studies to improve treatment and learn more about what causes this widespread illness: the National...
Asthma