There are 6 article(s) tagged NIH:

• February 2025

  • Displaced federal workers grieve lost lives, struggle with uncertainty

    For a few days, Kendra Lawler sat at home, stunned. Early last week, though, the veteran felt compelled to speak out.

    By Jane Roberts February 23, 2025

• November 2024

  • University of Memphis-made medical device helps COPD sufferers

    The wearable device can track a COPD patient’s personal exposure to pollutants and respiratory triggers, assess their lung function and transmit critical health data to their provider in real-time. 

    By Aisling Mäki November 14, 2024

• June 2022

  • Campaign aims to build diverse medical database that includes ‘All of Us’

    The research mobile exhibit, led by the National Institutes of Health, stops in Memphis this week. 

    By Aisling Mäki June 15, 2022

• January 2021

  • Where, how you live matter when it comes to COVID-19

    Charisse Madlock-Brown leads a group looking at social determinants of health in a massive, NIH-funded database representing 2.5 million people tested for COVID in about 75 clinical centers around the nation.

    By Jane Roberts January 19, 2021

• August 2020

  • UTHSC professor receives $4.5M for links in kidney, cardiovascular disease

    The larger of the two NIH grants will fund the study of kidney injury in newborns. Much of the kidney failure people experience in midlife is caused by injuries when they were infants, research has shown.

    By Jane Roberts August 20, 2020

• September 2019

  • UTHSC study affirms link between air pollution, IQ loss, suggests folate could help

    Research project shows air pollution in city's southeast corridor is the highest; folate may help buffer drop in IQ.

    By Jane Roberts September 16, 2019