Drugs Aren’t The Answer: Rethinking Health And Healing Within Medicine
Our experts explain the role of integrative medicine and how complimentary therapies, like acupuncture, are becoming more mainstream in healthcare.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Sub-categories:
- Laboratory of Neuroimaging (1)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2)
- National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute (1)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (3)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (4)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (1)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (1)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The majority of NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland and other nearby suburbs of the Washington metropolitan area, with other primary facilities in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and smaller satellite facilities located around the United States. The NIH conducts its own scientific research through its Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program. (Wikipedia)
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Medical Notes: Diagnosing Cancer on the Go, Brain Waves Can Predict a Stutter, and the Scientific Way To Feel Less Stressed
Why do autoimmune diseases affect more women than men? Diagnosing on the go. Are speech disorders all in your head? A scientific way to feel less stressed.
How Can We Save Infants From the Effects of Opioid Addiction?
Experts discuss a promising new treatment approach and how to fix the root cause of NOWS.
Dropping the Paywalls to Scientific Research
Experts explain how this will affect the public, researchers, and the publishing industry.
Why ASPD is Still a Mystery: The Disorder Formerly Known as Sociopathy
ASPD is a disorder where those affected don’t feel empathy. Many serial killers and rapists have ASPD, so why haven’t we been looking for a cure? An expert talks about the challenges facing ASPD research.
Needle Phobia
Some people who have not yet gotten the Covid vaccine are simply afraid of the needle. Bad childhood experience can keep people from receiving necessary medical treatments. A needle-phobic and a physician explain how parents should discuss injections with their children from a young age.
The Damage of Too Little Sleep
Getting less than six hours of sleep per night has long been known to be hazardous to health, but the discovery of the mechanisms behind those hazards is leading scientists to strengthen their warnings.
The Language of Addiction: Why words matter
Addiction specialists are seeking to change the words we use to describe addictive behaviors, as they’ve learned the wrong language creates stigma and drives people away from treatment. Experts discuss the problem and solutions.
Undiagnosed Mystery Diseases
Hundreds of patients nationally have diseases that have confounded doctors and yielded no diagnosis and no reliable treatment. Today the Undiagnosed Diseases Network helps these patients, but its funding is uncertain beyond 2022. Patients and a physician leader of the UDN discuss the lonely plight of these patients and hopes for the future.
Covid and Kidney Disease
Covid-19 is usually a respiratory disease, but it can affect virtually any organ in the body. The nation’s top kidney disease expert discusses how Covid can prompt life-threatening kidney effects in the previously healthy, and how those with kidney disease are more susceptible to severe Covid infection.
Electroshock Therapy: Not What You See in the Movies
Experts explain the reality—that ECT is a quiet procedure that provokes a short brain seizure, releasing huge amounts of neurotransmitters to reset the brain in what is the quickest and most dependable treatment for severe and often suicidal depression.
Maintaining Mental Health During the Lockdown
Mental health is difficult to maintain when people are required to stay inside at home. In fact, we’re asked to engage in activities that normally would indicate mental distress. A noted psychologist with the NIH discusses ways to stay mentally healthy during the pandemic lockdown.
