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CURRENT ISSUE - February 22, 2019

Remembering the Legacy of Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Biographies abound of the Kennedy family, yet one didn’t exist about one of its seminal members, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, until now.

In Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World, biographer Eileen McNamara depicts...Read more

‘Social Life’ of DNA Has Unique Power

The rise of genetic testing over the past 20 years, especially with respect to genealogy has revealed DNA’s social power...Read more

Fried Illuminates the Future of Dentistry

For anyone who dreads going to the dentist, there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Advances in laser and light-based...Read more

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Black History Month Exhibition Celebrates NIH Scientists

‘Wear Red Day’ Focuses on Heart-Healthy Benefits of Social Networks

NIH Launches Survey to Gauge Workplace Climate, Harassment

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ON THE COVER: 3-D reconstructed model heart of a 63-year-old woman with psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin condition that researchers have linked to heart disease. The vessel at right represents the left circumflex artery, which contains widespread levels of coronary plaque (green). February is American Heart Month.

IMAGE: NEHAL MEHTA, NHLBI

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY - February 28, 1973

Tumor Immunotherapy Register Serves As Data Center for Cancer Treatment

An International Tumor Immunotherapy Register has been established to serve as a center for collection, storage, and exchange of information on immunological methods of treating cancer.

The Registry will record physicians' experience with immunotherapy for human cancer, including methods of administration, results of the treatment, and possible side effects.

It will be kept up to date by periodic progress reports from the physicians, who will in turn receive newsletters containing summaries of the most recent information. Computers are expected to handle much of the work involved in maintaining the Registry.

NIH Marks Women's History Month

"Critical Thinking." That's how women at NIH change America, according to organizers of the 2005 Women's History Month celebration, who adapted the occasion's national theme — "Women Change America" — for the NIH audience.

Leading off the celebration, sponsored by NIH's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management on Mar. 9, Ann Timmons, a communication artist, performed the one-woman play, Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Author in 1892 of The Yellow Wallpaper, a semi-autobiographical account of a woman's struggle with depression, Gilman was a pundit and lecturer on equal rights for women.