A small NIH-funded feasibility study found that an implanted device regulated by the body’s brain activity could improve treatment for the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in certain people with the disorder. This type of treatment, called adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS), is an improvement on a technique that has been used for PD and other brain disorders for many years. The study found aDBS was markedly more effective at controlling PD symptoms than conventional DBS treatments.

Two NIH-supported trials of an experimental malaria vaccine in healthy Malian adults found that all three tested regimens were safe.

NIH researchers have discovered the source of dysfunction in the process whereby cells in the eye’s retina remove waste.

Results from a large NIH-supported study show that protein analyses taken during the first trimester of pregnancy did not improve predictions for identifying people at risk for experiencing conditions related to having high blood pressure, hypertension, during pregnancy. Since there is an urgent need to better predict people at risk for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, researchers have been studying if proteins taken from blood or urine samples could provide this insight.