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Brigham and Women’s Hospital—a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School—announced yesterday a partnership in research that will investigate the genetic origin of serious diseases in women. The hospital will team up with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Amgen, a Fortune 500 human therapeutics company, on the Women’s Genome Health Study. Over the past decade, 28,000 initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive...
Harvard, along with two other academic institutions, will take the lead in moving basic stem cell science towards clinical applications after receiving an $11.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) last week...
...NHLBI, one of the institutes comprising the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will finance the establishment of specialized centers for the research and development of cell-based therapies for heart, lung, and blood diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Baylor College of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins University...
According to David T. Scadden, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and director of the new MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine housing the NHLBI project, the grant money—spread over five years—will help provide supplies, infrastructure, and salaries for scientists and staff...
...prescription that can work. The NHLBI promotes an eating plan called the DASH diet (for dietary approaches to stopping hypertension), with menus low in fats, salt, cholesterol, red meat and sweets and high in fruits, vegetables, grains, fish, poultry, nuts and low-fat dairy foods. Alcohol consumption should be limited, with men having two drinks or fewer a day and women--or men with small body mass--just one. In the very short term, alcohol may lower blood pressure; over time, however, it elevates it. Exercise is important, with aerobic activity--as little as 30 minutes of brisk walking--recommended...