CURRENT ISSUE - July 14, 2017
Taylor Calls on NIH’ers to Adopt, Share Healthy Behavior, Attitude
Susan L. Taylor was a 20-something, broke, exhausted newly single mom waiting in the emergency room, fully expecting the chest pain she’d had all week to be diagnosed as a heart attack. She was overwhelmed, over-burdened and under-employed...Read more
Insect-Borne Pathogens Threaten Crops
Wondering why the carefully tended vegetables in your garden have started to look rather lifeless?...Read more
‘Take a Hike’ for Your Health
It was a picture-perfect day on June 8, the kind of weather that makes you wish you had time to take a break from work...Read more
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Outdoor Film Festival Celebrates 20 Years
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This year was the 20th anniversary of the NIH Comcast Film Festival, an end-of-summer ritual for many NIH employees and neighbors. The festival was able to return this year to the grounds of Strathmore Hall. Over the 3 nights, attendees were treated to showings of Jurassic World, with 1,800 moviegoers; Minions, which drew a hundred or so on a rainy evening; and for the finale, 1,400 came to see The Wizard of Oz. |
Tests to Detect AIDS Antibodies in Blood Aren’t Perfect But Are Highly Effective
Blood screening tests for AIDS virus antibodies are not perfect but they have greatly reduced the probability of AIDS-contaminated blood going into the transfusion pool, a consensus conference panel meeting at NIH June 7-9 concluded.
One panel member told a press conference that a surgical patient is more likely to die from the effects of anesthesia than get AIDS from transfused blood.
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