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Audio analgesia: How sound blunts pain—at least in mice
Music can take your pain away Since the 1960s, music and other sounds have been found to ease pain from a range of different health...
Pain
Shedding light on facial pain
Joining forces to tackle facial pain Pain is your body’s way of telling you that something might be wrong and is the most frequent reason...
Pain
How a prosthetic ankle improves balance control
When someone loses a leg or other limb, a prosthetic device (a tool designed to replace a missing part of the body) can play a...
Limb Loss
Deafness is not a burden
Being deaf is not the same for everyone with the condition. Deafness means partial or complete loss of hearing in one or both ears and...
Hearing Disorders and Deafness
Meet the Director: Lindsey A. Criswell, M.D., M.P.H., D.Sc., National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Despite major progress, much is still unknown about the nature of disease. Lindsey A. Criswell, M.D., M.P.H., D.Sc., Director of the...
Meet the Director
Tesha Samuels advocates for others after living with sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease affects more than 100,000 people in the United States every year, and for three decades, Tesha Samuels was among them. After going through...
Sickle Cell Disease
Loud and clear: What to know about hearing loss
Hearing loss affects approximately 37.5 million people in the United States ages 18 years or older. It affects one in three people ages 65 to 74 and nearly half...
Hearing Disorders and Deafness
The costs of living with sickle cell disease in the United States
In the United States, more than 100,000 people are living with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited blood disorders that affects...
Sickle Cell Disease
Healthy Moments shares reliable information in quick bites
Getting the word out about science-based, healthy lifestyle tips is a challenge. People are short on time and bombarded with information from unreliable sources. The...
Health Information
Meet the Director: Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
How does an expert on blood diseases become the head of a “diabetes institute”? That’s a question Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., Director of the...
Diabetes
Meet Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), served the American public for over five decades....
Infectious Diseases, Meet the Director
Precision Environmental Health’s role in preventing disease
What is Precision Environmental Health? Precision Environmental Health is a research area that helps scientists learn how interactions between the environment and genetics can affect...
Genetic Testing
The future of water
What are PFAS? Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals that have been used in consumer products around the world since about the 1950s....
Environmental Health
Getting an accurate read on pulse oximeters
Pulse oximeters have been used in hospitals and doctors’ offices for decades. The small, painless devices measure blood oxygen saturation, which helps doctors decide how...
Medical Technology
