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🎉 Congratulations to four NIH researchers and leaders newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) — one of the highest honors in health and medicine! 🏅 Dr. Anthony Letai, NCI Director 🏅 Dr. Francesco DeMayo, NIEHS Senior Investigator 🏅 Dr. Swee Lay Thein, NHLBI Senior Investigator 🏅 Dr. Daniel S. Reich, NINDS Senior Investigator This honor recognizes outstanding professional achievement and a lasting commitment to service — and it's a perfect reflection of the scientific leadership and dedication NIH researchers bring to advancing biomedical research and improving health for all. 👏 Congratulations on this incredible, well-deserved achievement! 🔗 Meet the newly elected NAM members: bit.ly/4eMCbrA
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NIH researchers have discovered a natural defense mechanism that may help the body prevent plaque from building up inside arteries, opening new possibilities for treating atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of death in the U.S.
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How does environmental pollution affect fetal development? NIH-supported researchers created a placenta-on-a-chip to find out.
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Thank you, @FLOTUS, for your leadership in advancing women’s health. Women deserve clear answers about conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect them. Today, we are changing how our government pursues those answers. The new Women’s Health Division at @NIH will tackle these questions with gold-standard science, accelerate research, and turn discoveries into better prevention, treatments, and care for women across America.
.@FLOTUS reveals the @FirstLadyOffice’s 5 pillars for women’s health innovation: 1️⃣ Find cures for diseases affecting women in a unique way 2️⃣ Use superintelligence (SI) to enhance our understanding of female biology and speed up medical discoveries 3️⃣ Accelerate the process of guiding promising therapies from laboratories to female patients while maintaining strict safety standards 4️⃣ Ensure that medical breakthroughs are accessible and affordable to women regardless of their financial circumstances 5️⃣ Replace generations of silence with open conversation, education, and compassion
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“Substance use disorders can involve periods of remission and recurrence — as is the case with heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses. But lasting recovery is possible, and science continues to deliver new tools to help more people achieve it.” Dr. Nora Volkow serves as director of NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse. Read her new editorial on the state of addiction science via the USA Today. ➡️ bit.ly/4jtdFix
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Basic scientists, data scientists, and clinicians: Help advance women's health research! Many NIH institutes, centers, and offices are participating in these new NIH Highlighted Topics focused on: • Putting evidence into practice in women's health care bit.ly/4dQTY0B • Understanding how reproductive system aging affects health span and longevity bit.ly/4z5lsYM • Studying perimenopause as a distinct life stage bit.ly/47vubrc • Understanding and addressing gynecologic procedural pain bit.ly/4z77x4E Stay tuned for more women's health highlighted topics, coming soon! Learn more: bit.ly/4cmC8lx
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If your Author Accepted Manuscript was supported by @NIH funding, it must be posted publicly to PMC without an embargo. There's no cost and it does not require buying expensive open access plans. Take steps to upload your Author Accepted Manuscript here: nihms.nih.gov/login/?next=/s…
.@JAMAInternalMed recently published a thoughtful piece on public access calling for NIH to assert its position regarding compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. NIH has the right to make the Author Accepted Manuscript, which has been supported by taxpayers, public in PubMed Central at time of publication; a right which is independent from any publisher agreement. This is a free path to compliance for authors, helping us ensure rapid public access to NIH-supported research results.
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NIH-funded researchers found that combining engineered transfer RNA with an approved cystic fibrosis treatment could improve function of the proteins affected by the disease. More research is needed before it can be used in humans, but the findings may offer hope for people who don’t respond to current treatments due to certain mutations. Learn more: bit.ly/4zJYwhG
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Women make up half our population, yet too many questions about their health remain unanswered. President Trump’s Executive Order marks an exciting opportunity to strengthen NIH’s investment in women’s health research and advance the Administration’s commitment to improving women’s health throughout the lifespan. Under the order, we look forward to establishing a new Women’s Health Division. Working closely with NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health, the division will strengthen the Federal Government’s ability to: • coordinate research on women’s health conditions, including replication studies; • address gaps in scientific understanding; and • accelerate the translation of discoveries into better health outcomes.
Today, @POTUS, joined by @FLOTUS, signed an executive order directing HHS to establish a new Women’s Health Division at @NIH to strengthen research, accelerate medical breakthroughs, and improve health outcomes for women and girls. The order also establishes a White House Women’s Health Task Force, co-chaired by @SecKennedy and @SusieWiles47, to coordinate federal efforts to advance women’s health at every stage of life—from childhood and adolescence to reproductive health, menopause, and healthy aging.
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An NIH-funded clinical trial found that an extended course of a common COVID-19 antiviral did not improve Long COVID symptoms compared to placebo. The search for effective Long COVID treatments continues. But researchers are learning how to better measure symptoms for future trials. Learn more: bit.ly/3Wi7oMV.
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This SIDS Awareness Month, learn how Safe to Sleep® partners help reach families nationwide with safe infant sleep messages: bit.ly/4jDtByC #SafeToSleep
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For people living with speech loss it can be difficult to connect with others. Advances in technology may offer new ways to restore communication. Learn about communication tools and the latest NIH supported research in NIH News in Health: bit.ly/4ypQ1r6
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How do you "invent the future" of neuroscience? 🧠🧐 Just ask the 800+ researchers who gathered in August at the 2026 BRAIN Initiative Conference. Dr. Amy Bany Adams and Dr. John Ngai recap the breakthroughs, from mapping the brain's circuits to new hope for PTSD. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3Ut39O8
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NIH-supported researchers are developing a noninvasive urine test that may help identify pregnancies at risk for serious complications. The technology can detect early signs of pregnancy conditions, such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia, before symptoms appear. Read how this innovation could support maternal and infant health. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4BqAEBx
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What can help people manage pain after surgery while reducing opioid use? Research at NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is helping answer that question. NCCIH Director Dr. Wendy Weber shared findings from the NOHARM study with me, which included more than 68,000 participants. The study found that combining clinical support with non-drug approaches reduced opioid use after surgery without compromising pain control. Thank you to Dr. Weber and the NCCIH team for sharing the research behind this progress.
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Imagine if we could detect hundreds of treatable genetic conditions in newborns before symptoms ever appear. Sequencing a newborn’s whole genome could make this possible. The NIH Common Fund’s BRIDGES-NBS project is assessing the feasibility of incorporating whole genome sequencing into existing newborn screening programs to help identify these conditions earlier, when timely care can make all the difference. 🎥 Watch the overview video to learn more about this exciting initiative: bit.ly/3TvyTBC
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📣 Introducing R3PEATS, a new NIH Common Fund program to invest in the people and practices behind rigorous science — helping researchers build and share the tools, training, and collaborations that strengthen biomedical research and translate more reliably into benefits for patients. Learn more ➡️ go.nih.gov/BRiXhQi
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The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Start-Up Challenge and Accelerator is back for 2027! Are you an early-stage entrepreneur with an idea for technology to advance healthy aging? Submit by Jan 15 to compete for $994,000 in cash prizes, and a slot in the intensive accelerator program: bit.ly/4s1F1yq
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NEWS: A blood-pressure drug may activate health-promoting brown fat.
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