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NIH holds cookstove workshop NIH hosted a training workshop on cookstoves for trainee scientists from the U.S. and developing countries, aiming to reduce indoor air pollution caused globally by household cooking and heating fires. Read full article...
FDA evolves to meet global regulatory challenges The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evolving to meet the regulatory challenges caused by surging international trade, ensuring product safety both at home and abroad. Read full article...
US-Iran scientific partnerships hold promise Scientific engagement between Iran and the United States is flourishing. Attendees at a recent meeting in Tehran identified a number of promising areas for collaboration. Read full article...
Focus on the National Eye Institute The National Eye Institute (NEI) at NIH is battling visual impairment and eye disease globally, as well as in the U.S., through training and mentoring to meet global health challenges and support vision research in the future. Battling global blindness, eye disease through research Research shows the path toward trachoma elimination Turmeric may treat eye disease Q and A with NEI's Dr John Prakash
Vision research leads to new theories on brain plasticity Children and young adults treated through Project Prakash see for the first time, giving scientists a unique opportunity to study how the brain learns to process color, shape and movement. Read full article...
Fogarty Fellow Profile: Researching inherited childhood glaucoma in Nigeria A profile on former Fogarty Fellow Dr. Oluwatoyin F. Fafowora, who is studying the genetic basis for juvenile-onset glaucoma, which is prevalent in West Africa. Read full article...
NIH releases phase I of World RePORT , an illustrative online map showing research funded by major government agencies and philanthropic organizations around the world
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