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Your child's health care provider can check for an ear infection and can prescribe antibiotics to treat it.
February 06, 2024

Help your child through winter ear infections

The start of winter often means the worst part of cold and flu season, and with that, the dreaded ear...

Ear Infections
The polio-like disease can cause symptoms such as sudden arm or leg weakness.
January 14, 2019

New MedlinePlus topic: Acute flaccid myelitis

Acute flaccid myelitis has made headlines recently, but what exactly is this strange disease that affects children? Using MedlinePlus'...

Acute Flaccid Myelitis
January 14, 2019

NIH collaborates on national limb loss registry

Limb loss is an important medical issue, especially for U.S. military service members. Now the first national database on...

Limb Loss
NIH-supported researchers are testing a wearable blood pressure monitor. They hope to develop a wireless version, like the one seen here, soon.
January 14, 2019

A wearable blood pressure monitor may be in our future

More and more consumers are using health monitors they can wear. These wearables make it easier for patients to track...

Blood Pressure
January 14, 2019

Restoring beneficial gut bacteria in cancer patients

Could our own bacteria be helpful in cancer treatment? Maybe, say researchers sponsored in part by the National Institute of...

Cancer
January 14, 2019

High blood sugar during pregnancy increases chances of mother’s type 2 diabetes, child’s obesity

A mother's health during pregnancy can have a lasting impact on both her health and that of her child. ...

Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes
Joy Blanc, right, with her family.
January 13, 2019

A family battle with scleroderma

Joy Blanc, 34, lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband and daughter. She was diagnosed with scleroderma and...

Scleroderma
Dee Burlile, pictured center with her family, credits her three children with saving her life.
January 13, 2019

Struggling for answers: A patient’s scleroderma journey

It took Dee Burlile four frustrating, painful years to find out that all the symptoms she had been suffering from...

Scleroderma
Carol Feghali-Bostwick, Ph.D. (left) and John Varga, M.D. (right) work with NIH on scleroderma research.
January 13, 2019

What’s new on the horizon for scleroderma?

There may not be a cure yet, but many scleroderma experts are optimistic about ongoing research into new treatments. We...

Scleroderma
Scleroderma can lead to painful bumps under the skin, red spots, patches of hard skin, and even digestive problems.
January 13, 2019

Scleroderma: An overview for you

The name scleroderma means "hard skin"—a simple description of a complex disease that causes thick, hard scar tissue to form...

Scleroderma
January 13, 2019

5 things to know if you have scleroderma

Maureen Mayes, M.D., is the founder and director of the Scleroderma Clinical and Research Program at the University of...

Scleroderma
NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is working across NIH to address the opioid crisis.
January 13, 2019

Fighting the opioid crisis: NIH HEAL initiative takes on addiction and pain management

More than 115 Americans die from opioid overdose every day. That's four times higher than the number of opioid overdose...

Opioids
James M. maintains a drug-free lifestyle with support from UTEC, Inc.
January 13, 2019

Renewal and recovery after opioid dependence

For the past six years, James M. was in and out of jail, courtrooms, detox, and halfway houses. "I started...

Opioids
January 11, 2019

Did you know? Nobel Prize winners at NIH

Out of just 12 Nobel Prize winners in 2018, three were NIH-supported researchers. And they're not the first. NIH grantees have...

NIH Highlights
January 10, 2019

Supporting rare disease research at NIH

Tiina K. Urv, Ph.D., leads the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network, part of NIH’s Office of Rare Diseases Research....

Rare Diseases
Andrea L. Gropman, M.D. researches urea cycle disorders with funding from NIH. She works at Children’s National Health System in the Washington, D.C. area.
January 10, 2019

What is it like to research a rare disease?

Andrea L. Gropman, M.D., studies rare diseases with support from NIH and the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network. She...

Rare Diseases
Zoey Zalusky, right, was 19 years old when she passed away suddenly from a rare disease.
January 09, 2019

Zoey’s story: One family’s experience with a rare disease

In 2015, college student Zoey Zalusky was 19 years old with an exciting future ahead of her. She had a supportive, loving family,...

Rare Diseases
Judy Perkins receiving an infusion of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes as part of her cancer treatment.
January 09, 2019

Clinical trial gives breast cancer patient a second chance

When Judy Perkins got the diagnosis of stage IV metastatic breast cancer, or breast cancer that has spread, she felt defeated. ...

Cancer Immunotherapy
Steven Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., in his lab at the National Cancer Institute.
January 09, 2019

Using your own immune system to fight cancer

For more than 30 years, Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., has pioneered the development of immunotherapies and gene therapies...

Cancer Immunotherapy
January 09, 2019

Healing and haiku: One parent’s experience with addiction and loss

Haiku is a form of poetry that can express complex emotions and ideas in a short and simple form. In...

Opioids
Barbara Gillmeister and her son Gilly.
January 08, 2019

A safe home for young men struggling with addiction

Barbara Gillmeister knows what it's like to worry about a child with an opioid addiction. "When you have someone...

Opioids
January 08, 2019

The opioid crisis: An overview

Who is affected? Roughly 2 million people live with an opioid addiction in the U.S. "It's important to note...

Opioids
Diana Bianchi, M.D., is working with a team to address issues associated with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome
January 07, 2019

Acting now to help newborns with opioid withdrawal

At the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Director Diana Bianchi, M.D., is...

Opioids