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NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit the http://www.nih.gov.
Two clinical trials have been launched to investigate a new long-acting form of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in cisgender women and people who inject drugs.
Jun 5, 2024
Researchers have made progress in the quest for an HIV vaccine by using innovative immunologic techniques to stimulate the production of rare antibody precursors in animals.
May 30, 2024
Mice administered raw milk samples from dairy cows infected with H5N1 influenza experienced high virus levels in their respiratory organs and lower virus levels in other vital organs, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
May 24, 2024
A recent NIH-funded study has revealed an alarming increase in law enforcement seizures of illicit fentanyl in the U.S., particularly in pill form, between…
May 13, 2024
A collaborative study led by researchers from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Substance Abuse and Mental…
May 8, 2024
Researchers have developed a new urine-based test called MyProstateScore 2.0 (MPS2) that can accurately distinguish between aggressive prostate cancers requiring treatment and slow-growing cancers that may not need immediate intervention.
May 8, 2024
Groundbreaking Study Paves the Way for Tailored Hypertension Treatments In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Genetics, researchers from the National…
Apr 30, 2024
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have made a breakthrough in eye imaging by applying artificial intelligence to a technique called…
Apr 10, 2024
A five-year study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found no significant evidence of brain injury detectable by MRI scans in a group of U.S.
Mar 18, 2024
Studies of interactions between two lab-generated monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and an essential Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) protein have uncovered targets that could be exploited in designing treatments and vaccines for this extremely common virus.
Mar 12, 2024
A 16-week course of a monoclonal antibody, omalizumab, increased the amount of peanut, tree nuts, egg, milk and wheat that multi-food allergic children as young as 1 year could consume without an allergic reaction in a late-stage clinical trial.
Feb 26, 2024
Law enforcement seizures of “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms” containing the psychoactive component psilocybin increased dramatically in the United States between…
Feb 6, 2024
Three different HIV antibodies each independently protected monkeys from acquiring simian-HIV (SHIV) in a placebo-controlled proof-of-concept study intended to inform development of a preventive HIV vaccine for people.
Jan 17, 2024
Semaglutide, a highly popular medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat obesity and manage type 2 diabetes, was associated with a…
Jan 6, 2024
