A new NIAID-funded study analyzing samples from patients with and without acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) provides additional evidence for an association between the rare but often serious condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis, and infection with non-polio enteroviruses.

Long-term exposure to air pollution was linked to increases in emphysema between 2000 and 2018, according to a new study funded by NIEHS and NHLBI.

Scientists report that a loss of cells in the brain called astrocytes is associated with stuttering, a potentially lifelong and debilitating speech disorder. An estimated 1 percent of adults in the United States are affected by stuttering.

Scientists using an experimental treatment have slowed the progression of scrapie, a degenerative central nervous disease caused by prions, in laboratory mice and greatly extended the rodents’ lives.

An early-stage clinical trial is evaluating two licensed seasonal influenza vaccines, administered with or without novel adjuvants, for their safety and ability to generate an immune response.

Researchers at NIH have developed a new mouse model that could improve the translation of research in mice into advances in human health.

A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine and collaborating academic research institutions developed a method to measure a type of gene mutation involved in the evolution of cancer.

Common recommendations from hospitals and infant formula manufacturers for introducing solid foods to infants could raise the risk of overfeeding or underfeeding, suggests a computer modeling study funded by NIH.

Moderately reducing caloric intake over a period of 2 years significantly improved cardiometabolic risk factors in young and middle-age, non-obese adults, according to new findings from the Comprehensive Assessment of Long-term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (CALERIE) trial.

Infants born to women exposed to high levels of air pollution in the week before delivery are more likely to be admitted to a newborn intensive care unit (NICU), suggests an analysis by researchers at NIH.