Neuro Transmissions
UCSD Scientists Explain How They Spend NIH Funds
President Trumpês proposed budget will cut $7 billion in NIH funding - over 20% of the total NIH budget. You might be wondering, where does that NIH money get spent? This week, we interviewed some UCSD Neuroscientists to tell you about...
Neuro Transmissions
How the NIH Funds American Science
President Trumpês proposed budget will cut $7 billion in NIH funding - over 20% of the total NIH budget. You might be wondering, where does NIH money go? This week, we heard from scientists across the country about their NIH funded...
Healthcare Triage
Women and Minorities Get Fewer NIH Research Grants
The peer review process for awarding NIH grants has some problems. Less money is being awarded, and the buying power of the NIH has declined. What's going on with the peer review system?
Curated Video
How Hearing Works - Journey of Sound to the Brain
How do we hear? How does sound get transferred from the ear all the way to the brain? In this video, I go into all the juicy details. Listen up and have fun.
Neuro Transmissions
What Are Overhead Payments?
The administration has proposed a cut of nearly $6 billion to the NIH budget in 2018. They say that no research will be directly affected because the NIH budget will trim inefficient, "wasteful" overhead payments. But what are those...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Ebola concerns continue as sick nurse leaves Texas hospital
CLEAN : Ebola concerns continue as sick nurse leaves Texas hospital
Curated Video
Could Artificial Intelligence Help Patients With Schizophrenia?
An app that uses artificial intelligence to measure thinking and speech patterns could help patients with schizophrenia.
Curated Video
Possible Coronavirus Treatments Include Cloned Antibodies, Vaccines
While the CDC says risk to Americans is still low, U.S. researchers and scientists are hard at work exploring possible treatments for coronavirus.
Curated Video
Largest COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Underway
This week, researchers began testing 30,000 test subjects in the NIH’s and drugmaker Moderna’s Phase 3 clinical trials
on a virus vaccine.
Bloomberg
Trump Says Americans Should Only Gather in Groups of 10 or Less
Mar.16 -- President Donald Trump unveils new guidelines issued to fight the coronavirus. He speaks at the White House.
Bloomberg
AstraZeneca Vaccine Trial Halted After Spinal-Cord Issue
Sep.09 -- National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins says AstraZeneca Plc’s closely watched Covid-19 vaccine trial had been halted due to a "spinal cord problem." He speaks at a congressional hearing . (Excerpt)
Curated Video
Clinical Trial For Coronavirus Vaccine Will Begin Monday
An anonymous government official told the Associated Press the trial's first participant will receive an experimental dose of the vaccine Monday.
Curated Video
Study: Coronavirus Can Remain Viable On Some Surfaces For Days
It can remain viable anywhere from three hours in the air to up to three days on plastic and stainless steel surfaces.
Curated Video
Trial Finds Remdesivir As Beneficial COVID-19 Drug, NIH Says
The NIH says the drug cut the recovery time of patients by four days when compared to patients receiving a placebo
Curated Video
2 More Possible Vaccines Get A Fast Track, Raising Wall Street Hopes
Two more coronavirus vaccine candidates are in a fast lane for FDA approval. But experts say the road to an effective vaccine still has speed bumps.
Bloomberg
Fauci Says Assume Any Covid-19 Vaccine Will Offer 'Finite' Protection
Jul.06 -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House coronavirus task force member and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says any vaccine developed to ward off the novel coronavirus would likely be limited in how...
Curated Video
There's A New Experimental Treatment For Alcohol, Drug Addiction
Naltrexone is already FDA approved, but not as an implant. Options are being studied and if all goes well, one could be greenlighted in 2024.
Curated Video
How Indoor Skydiving Helped Kids With Special Needs
Indoor skydiving helps teach kids with special needs the meaning of overcoming fears, as well as defy what some kids think is possible for themselves.
Curated Video
Why Are More Women Dying From Alcohol Use?
More women are dying from drinking alcohol, according to a recent NIH study.
Curated Video
Therapeutic Drug Could Help Keep COVID-19 Patients Off Ventilators
AT-100 could help keep COVID-19 patients from going into respiratory distress and off of ventilators.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Nih Director Francis Collins
Ira talks with Francis Collins, incoming director of the National Institutes of Health, about research priorities for the years ahead.