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CURRENT ISSUE - August 10, 2018

Rothenberg Tracks T-Cell Education

When he goes off to university, the T cell is not like his other high-achieving classmates. Rather than breezing through in the standard complement of time, T cells are on a kind of M.D./Ph.D. track, lingering in the thymus for as many as 2 rigorous weeks before committing irreversibly to the T-cell profession...Read more

Don’t Fear AEDs—You Might Save a Life

When someone collapses in sudden cardiac arrest, every moment counts. Using an AED (automated external defibrillator)...Read more

Workplace Civility Increases Productivity

“Civility pays.”

That’s the advice Dr. Christine Porath gave at a...Read more

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NIH Hosts mHealth Technology Showcase for Health Researchers, Device Developers

CANIH ‘Invigorate’ Celebrates Caribbean Culture

Biotech Demonstrations Wow Congressional Staff

Atherosclerosis as a Model for Studying Combined Exposures

NIMH Holds 10th Axelrod Symposium

NINR’s Grady Discusses Nursing Science at UW

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ON THE COVER: A confocal microscopy image shows the developing face of a 6-day-old zebrafish larva.

IMAGE: OSCAR RUIZ & GEORGE EISENHOFFER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY - August 08, 2008

Kiecolt-Glaser Offers New Paradigm on How Stress Kills

The idea that the mind affects health and illness is thousands of years old, but only in recent decades have scientists tracked down the data.

Now Ohio State University’s Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser is adding to the growing evidence on the health consequences of stress. In her talk “How Stress Kills: New Perspectives on Stress and Inflammation,” she offered recent findings to a packed house in Lipsett Amphitheater.

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.