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The aim is to make clinical trial data available to volunteers and scientists, even if a drug or therapy being tested turns out to be a failure. That could help identify serious side effects.

HHS Issues New Rules To Open Up Data From Clinical Trials

6:41pm September 16, 2016

by Richard Harris

The aim is to make clinical trial data available to volunteers and scientists, even if a drug or therapy being tested turns out to be a failure. That could help identify serious side effects.

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Michael Phelps shows signs of cupping on his way to another gold medal in Rio de Janeiro.

Athletes Go For Gold With Red Spots Blazing

6:11pm August 08, 2016

by Carolyn Beans

There's scant science to support the ancient Eastern therapy of cupping. But that hasn't stopped Olympians from trying it to ease pain and speed recovery.

In this file photo, a professor holds a tray of stem cells at the University of Connecticut. The NIH plans to lift a moratorium on funding studies using human stem cells in animal embryos.

The Chimera Quandary: Is It Ethical To Create Hybrid Embryos?

8:26am August 08, 2016

by NPR Staff

The National Institutes of Health proposed lifting its moratorium on funding for research on part-animal, part-human embryos — which raises a huge dilemma, says bioethicist Insoo Hyun.

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Pablo Ross of the University of California, Davis, inserts human stem cells into a pig embryo as part of experiments to create chimeric embryos.

NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos

6:28pm August 04, 2016

by Rob Stein

The National Institutes of Health is proposing to fund experiments that create chimeras of human and animal cells while also imposing restrictions in response to ethical concerns.

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Earlier this week, NIH temporarily halted work in the cell therapy lab of Dr. Steven Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute, pending a review of safety standards there.

Task Force Calls For More Safety Oversight At NIH Research Hospital

2:10pm April 22, 2016

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

NIH Director Francis Collins has stopped research at two leading labs for now. But an independent board of experts wants even more oversight to ensure that patient safety is the top priority.

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The Clinical Center on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., is an internationally renowned hospital where patients are also research subjects.

NIH Halts Some Research Amid Concerns Over Contamination And Safety

6:54pm April 19, 2016

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

The National Institutes of Health shut down some clinical trials and two production facilities over concerns that safety rules haven't been followed, but it says no patients appear to have been hurt.

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Manufacturing A Part Of The Small New You

7:00pm March 18, 2016

by Shawn Fitzmaurice

Imagine being rebuilt in miniature.

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Medical Cocaine Addiction Treatment Being Developed by Winston-Salem Entrepreneur

11:34am March 11, 2016

by Shawn Fitzmaurice

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A Fix For Gender-Bias In Animal Research Could Help Humans

4:40pm February 10, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

Women report more bad side effects from medicines than men do. Researchers say the discrepancy may stem in part from how biomedical research is conducted at its earliest stages in animals.

NIH Retires The Last Of Its Research Chimps

11:15pm November 18, 2015

by Laura Wagner

After retiring hundreds of research chimpanzees in 2013, the National Institute of Health said that 50 remaining chimps would no longer be used for medical studies.