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Help your child through winter ear infections
The start of winter often means the worst part of cold and flu season, and with that, the dreaded ear...
Ear Infections
New MedlinePlus topic: Acute flaccid myelitis
Acute flaccid myelitis has made headlines recently, but what exactly is this strange disease that affects children? Using MedlinePlus'...
Acute Flaccid Myelitis
NIH collaborates on national limb loss registry
Limb loss is an important medical issue, especially for U.S. military service members. Now the first national database on...
Limb Loss
A wearable blood pressure monitor may be in our future
More and more consumers are using health monitors they can wear. These wearables make it easier for patients to track...
Blood Pressure
Restoring beneficial gut bacteria in cancer patients
Could our own bacteria be helpful in cancer treatment? Maybe, say researchers sponsored in part by the National Institute of...
Cancer
High blood sugar during pregnancy increases chances of mother’s type 2 diabetes, child’s obesity
A mother's health during pregnancy can have a lasting impact on both her health and that of her child. ...
Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes
A family battle with scleroderma
Joy Blanc, 34, lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband and daughter. She was diagnosed with scleroderma and...
Scleroderma
Struggling for answers: A patient’s scleroderma journey
It took Dee Burlile four frustrating, painful years to find out that all the symptoms she had been suffering from...
Scleroderma
What’s new on the horizon for scleroderma?
There may not be a cure yet, but many scleroderma experts are optimistic about ongoing research into new treatments. We...
Scleroderma
Scleroderma: An overview for you
The name scleroderma means "hard skin"—a simple description of a complex disease that causes thick, hard scar tissue to form...
Scleroderma
5 things to know if you have scleroderma
Maureen Mayes, M.D., is the founder and director of the Scleroderma Clinical and Research Program at the University of...
Scleroderma
Fighting the opioid crisis: NIH HEAL initiative takes on addiction and pain management
More than 115 Americans die from opioid overdose every day. That's four times higher than the number of opioid overdose...
Opioids
Renewal and recovery after opioid dependence
For the past six years, James M. was in and out of jail, courtrooms, detox, and halfway houses. "I started...
Opioids
Did you know? Nobel Prize winners at NIH
Out of just 12 Nobel Prize winners in 2018, three were NIH-supported researchers. And they're not the first. NIH grantees have...
NIH Highlights
Supporting rare disease research at NIH
Tiina K. Urv, Ph.D., leads the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network, part of NIH’s Office of Rare Diseases Research....
Rare Diseases
What is it like to research a rare disease?
Andrea L. Gropman, M.D., studies rare diseases with support from NIH and the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network. She...
Rare Diseases
Zoey’s story: One family’s experience with a rare disease
In 2015, college student Zoey Zalusky was 19 years old with an exciting future ahead of her. She had a supportive, loving family,...
Rare Diseases
Clinical trial gives breast cancer patient a second chance
When Judy Perkins got the diagnosis of stage IV metastatic breast cancer, or breast cancer that has spread, she felt defeated. ...
Cancer Immunotherapy
Using your own immune system to fight cancer
For more than 30 years, Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., has pioneered the development of immunotherapies and gene therapies...
Cancer Immunotherapy
Healing and haiku: One parent’s experience with addiction and loss
Haiku is a form of poetry that can express complex emotions and ideas in a short and simple form. In...
Opioids
A safe home for young men struggling with addiction
Barbara Gillmeister knows what it's like to worry about a child with an opioid addiction. "When you have someone...
Opioids
The opioid crisis: An overview
Who is affected? Roughly 2 million people live with an opioid addiction in the U.S. "It's important to note...
Opioids
Acting now to help newborns with opioid withdrawal
At the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Director Diana Bianchi, M.D., is...
Opioids