November / December 2012 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• NIH holds cookstove research training workshop
• FDA evolves to meet global regulatory challenges
• US-Iran scientific partnerships hold promise
• Focus on the National Eye Institute (NEI) at NIH
  • Battling global blindness, eye disease through research
  • Research shows the path toward trachoma elimination
  • Background: Blindness from trachoma and trichiasis
  • Vision research leads to new theories on brain plasticity
  • Turmeric may treat eye disease
  • Q and A with NEI's Dr John Prakash
• Profile: Fogarty Dr Oluwatoyin F Fafowora fellow researches inherited childhood glaucoma in Nigeria
• H3Africa begins building Africa's genomics expertise:
  opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• NIGMS celebrates 50 years of basic science discoveries
• Improving treatment of Burkitt's lymphoma and saving children's lives
• Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine can protect women with HIV
• Global health briefs
• People in the news

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