Tag: NIH

The law passed Congress with majority support from both parties in December 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate breaks up House cures bill into tiny pieces

Robert King · January 19, 2016 11:50 pm

Mary Woolley is president of Research!America, a nonprofit committed to making medical and health research a larger priority in the country. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Health research just got the biggest boost in a decade, but she wants more

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 18, 2016 5:01 am

Beginning in January, doctors can get reimbursed for advising terminally ill patients on what types of interventions they may want to accept or reject.Â (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Predictable NIH funding critical for cancer ‘moon shot:’ advocates

Robert King · January 14, 2016 5:01 am

More than 50 House lawmakers are clamoring for a new strategy to combat high drug prices. (iStock Photo)

Lawmakers want to take away drugmakers’ monopolies

Robert King · January 11, 2016 7:29 pm

Government to probe fetal tissue research after Planned Parenthood scandal

Robert King · December 22, 2015 5:55 pm

A major push by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wasn't enough to lift a ban on funding federal research into gun violence in the omnibus spending bill. (AP Photo)

Funding for gun violence research left out of omnibus

Robert King · December 16, 2015 7:07 pm

National Institute of Health Director Francis Collins said the agency has lost 22 percent of its purchasing power since its peak funding in 2003. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

NIH gets major funding boost

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 16, 2015 2:05 pm

âÅWe must insist that we cannot have a bill leave the station that still has that ban on research in it,âï¿½ Nancy Pelosi said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

Pelosi wants repeal of gun research ban in omnibus

Robert King · December 10, 2015 4:43 pm

New restrictions and permits, with reduced demand for the animals, helped lead to the decision. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

NIH chimps head for retirement

Daniel Chaitin · November 19, 2015 5:43 pm

A consumer pays 23andMe $199 and the company sends a kit that has a vial and some solution in it. The person spits in the vial, shakes it up and sends it back to 23andMe, which tests the sample and sends back the results online. (istock photo)

Genetic testing, without leaving your home

Robert King · November 2, 2015 6:01 am

President Bill Clinton signs the National Institutes of Health Act at the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 1993, lifting the ban on fetal tissue research. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Fetal researchers donate 100% to Dems

Paige Winfield Cunningham · October 7, 2015 2:02 am

A customer tries out his new Apple iPhone 6s Plus smartphone Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 at the Apple store at The Grove in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Federal smartphone app predicts behavior of users

Ariel Cohen · September 26, 2015 7:28 pm