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Marine Microorganisms Show Promise as New Cancer Drugs

Admit it—everyone harbors a secret hope
that the cure for cancer is obscured only by
the ocean depths, and that some day, science
will find a way to harvest nature’s undersea
pharmacopeia...Read more

Legendary Hawaiian hero Archie Kalepa

Olympic-Style Competition To Showcase Use of Advanced Assistive Devices

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Warm-ups precede Take a Hike day events.

Hospital Harnesses Power Of Science, Technology to Improve Surgery for Kids

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A scanning electron microscope picture of a nerve ending broken open to reveal vesicles (orange and blue) containing chemicals to pass messages in the nervous system.
ON THE COVER: Visual interpretation of spinal
cord injury and modern warfare, from a 2012 NIMH
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�Minerals in Medicine� Exhibit at CC

The Clinical Center is featuring a “Minerals in Medicine” exhibit as part of a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History’s department of mineral sciences and its National Gem and Mineral Collection. While the objects were being unpacked, Clinical Center director Dr. John Gallin (second from l) marveled at one of the exhibit’s stones presented by Smithsonian geologist Dr. Michael A. Wise (l).

The Clinical Center is featuring a �Minerals in Medicine� exhibit as part of a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution�s National Museum of Natural History�s department of mineral sciences and its National Gem and Mineral Collection.

 

NIH Story� To Be Told Each Week Via 2 New Television and Radio Programs

The NIH story will be told regularly beginning this month on two new programs, one on color television, the other on AM/FM stereo radio.

"NIH Reports" is the title of the weekly television program to be carried on WRC-TV, Channel Four, every Saturday at 3:55 p.m. The first three programs, to be telecast Oct. 12, 19, and 26, will feature Dr. Robert Q. Marston, Director of the National Institutes of Health.


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