NIH

In the vast majority of cases, Lauer reported, the person being investigated has been an Asian man in his 50s. Some three-quarters of those under investigation had active NIH grants, and nearly half had at least two grants.

Imagine your wife suffers a cardiac arrest in the middle of the night and remains unconscious. You start CPR and tell your granddaughter to call 911.

Ask yourself how often you ever think about your ability to hear? How much you value it? How much you—and your loved ones—would be impacted if it were gone or profoundly diminished?

In part I of this series, published earlier this week, we discussed the RO1 grant - the bread and butter of academic research funding.

Scientific research is not cheap. Conducting experiments requires people, reagents, technology and a lot of very expensive equipment.

The prevalence of dementia in the United States significantly declined from 11.6% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2012.  A new study by JAMA Internal Medicine

Sometimes public officials hold press conferences for no particular reason, except perhaps to get themselves on TV.

Oops, they did it again.

A recent study shows that early treatment for HIV results in a significant decrease in early illness and death.