NIH Research Matters

Nursing facilities that tested their staff frequently for COVID-19 had substantially fewer deaths from the disease among their vulnerable residents.

Patients with pulmonary fibrosis who identified as Black were diagnosed, hospitalized, and died younger than White and Hispanic patients.

Researchers found evidence that the nervous system plays a key role in the extreme and sometimes deadly allergic reactions known as anaphylaxis.

A woman with leukemia is likely cured of HIV after receiving a transplant including stem cells from banked umbilical cord blood.

Children aged 2 to 5 with type 1 diabetes who received an artificial pancreas had more stable blood glucose levels than those who received standard care.

The first complete wiring map of the larval fruit fly brain could aid future brain research and inspire new machine learning architectures.

An experimental tuberculosis vaccine that can be stored at room temperature was safe and provoked an immune response in a phase 1 clinical trial.