NIH

August 28, 2015August 28, 2015

NIH Study Will Infect Humans With Respiratory Syncytial Virus To Develop New RSV Insights, Vaccines

News, Pneumonia

A new NIH study is just getting underway that will infect study participants with a strain of RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) to see how the infection develops and if anything can ... Read more

August 27, 2015November 5, 2015

Researchers Assess Best Exercise Protocol for Pulmonary Hypertension Patients

News, Pulmonary Hypertension

An award of $465,000 from the National Institutes of Health was recently granted to a physical therapy researcher from the IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Services at Indiana University-Purdue University ... Read more

May 8, 2015November 6, 2015

NIH Reinforces Asthma Focus For World Asthma Day 2015

Asthma, News

World Asthma Day 2015 was held on May 5th, and in an effort to renew its commitment to improving knowledge on asthma as well as helping develop more effective treatments and preventing ... Read more

December 10, 2014November 11, 2015

Cureveda Receives NIH Grants for Systemic Sclerosis and COPD Drug

COPD, News, Scleroderma

Biotechnology company Cureveda LLC just announced that it has received two National Institutes of Health (NIH) Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants worth $450,000 in total. Cureveda specializes in ... Read more

October 8, 2014November 6, 2015

NIH New Innovator Award Granted to “Organs-On-Chips” Engineer Project

Asthma, News

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently granted engineer Dan Huh from the University of Pennsylvania the NIH New Innovator Award, for his work in the development of small three-dimensional models of ... Read more

June 5, 2014November 11, 2015

Study Confirms Statin Drugs Do Not Prevent COPD Exacerbation

COPD

Statin drugs, commonly used to decrease cholesterol levels, doesn’t reduce the number and severity of outbreaks in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). That was the result of a clinical trial from ... Read more