History of the Clinical Center
Research at the NIH Clinical Center
2020 Additional Coverage
NIH hosts COVID-19 Vaccination Event
- See what Fauci had to say right before receiving the vaccine and Fauci says he's confident in the vaccine. Here's why
CNN Health - NIH Director Francis Collins is 'thrilled' to receive and provide Covid vaccine to Americans
MSNBC - WATCH: Fauci received COVID-19 vaccine
PBS NewsHour - Fauci, Azar and Collins receive their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine
Washington Post - DR. FAUCI SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!!!... Gets Vaccine with Other Health Officials
TMZ - Dr. Anthony Fauci receives the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
New York Times - Fauci, other top health officials receive Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on camera
NBC News - Fauci receives vaccine, has 'extreme confidence' it's safe, effective
ABC News - Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top health officials get coronavirus vaccine
CBS News
Dr. Harvey Alter wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize For Hepatitis C Virus Discovery
NPR - Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus
The New York Times - Three who discovered hepatitis C virus win Nobel Prize for medicine
PBS News Hour - Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for Discovery of Hepatitis C Virus
Wall Street Journal - Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to trio who discovered Hepatitis C virus
ABC News - Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Three Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C
Smithsonian Magazine - Doctor who still works part-time at NIH in Maryland at 85 wins Nobel Prize in Medicine
WJLA
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Clinical Center in the News
2020:
- NIH hosts COVID-19 Vaccination Event
- Fauci says Operation Warp Speed 'will go down historically' as 'highly successful'
Fox News - Dr. Fauci got the Covid-19 vaccine on live TV
Vox - Fauci, Azar receive coronavirus vaccines at NIH event
Politico - Anthony Fauci Has Received The Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
BuzzFeed News - Dr. Anthony Fauci Publicly Receives the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine on Tuesday
People - Dr. Fauci, Azar, NIH healthcare workers receive COVID-19 vaccine
UPI
- Fauci says Operation Warp Speed 'will go down historically' as 'highly successful'
- Got to Go? Scientists Uncover Gene That Helps Sense a Full Bladder
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - NIH Clinical Center researcher Dr. Harvey J. Alter receives the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
- Medicine Nobel honors three scientists for discoveries on hepatitis C virus
Science - Virologists who discovered hepatitis C win medicine Nobel
Nature - Virus-hunting trio win Nobel for hepatitis C discovery
Reuters - 3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus
Associated Press - Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to US-UK trio for discovery of hepatitis C virus
CNN - Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for work on hepatitis C
The Washington Post
- Medicine Nobel honors three scientists for discoveries on hepatitis C virus
- What will come of Autumn? A girl, a disfiguring tumor and a clinical trial that offers hope.
Autumn is one of 50 children who have been participating in a clinical trial at the Clinical Center since 2015.
Washington Post - NIH launches trial of Rigel drug for severe COVID-19
Reuters - Scientists Monitor Brains Replaying Memories in Real Time
SciTechDaily - Treatment opportunities for novel gram-negative antibiotics are rare in US hospitals
Healio, Infectious Disease News - Serum Neurofilament Light Concentrations to Assess TBI-Related Neuronal Damage
Neurology Today - Blood test may accurately reveal concussion severity
United Press International - Blood Biomarker Detects Concussion, Shows Severity, Predicts Recovery
Medscape - Coronavirus doctors’ overuse of antibiotics could spur resistance and raise death toll
Fox News - Why COVID-19 Lingers (Podcast)
Bloomberg - Ready, set, game! NIH Aiming for fun in the pediatric experience
MeriTalk - Their three children have a fatal disease, and they refused to let the coronavirus take away their only chance at saving them
The Washington Post - Blood of coronavirus survivors could help others fight
NBC 4 Washington - How cooking became the perfect recipe for my spiraling anxiety
The Washington Post - She was asked to speak about her two ‘ultrarare’ diseases. She did, while also telling of a rare place.
The Washington Post - Virginia woman survives breast cancer with experimental vaccine
NBC 4 Washington - Considering a Clinical Trial? Here’s What You Need to Know
elemental - Volunteering for clinical trials: The non-scientists who help discover cures
The Kojo Nnamdi Show - Patients push limits for clues to chronic faitgue syndrome
AP - An Ebola patient treated in the U.S. chose to remain anonymous. Now he’s telling his story.
The Washington Post
2019:
- The silent "sixth" sense
Vox - Building a better flu vaccine -- one you don't have to get every year
CNN - NIH Experiments With Drug To Reduce Opioid Cravings
WRC-TV (NBC) - Could a Universal Flu Vaccine Save Us All?
Elemental - Sickle Cell Disease gene therapy and transplant trials at the NIH Clinical Center
- Potential Sickle Cell breakthrough
WBRC-TV (FOX) - Clinical trial in US holds promise for sickle-cell patients
CGTN-TV America - Potential Sickle Cell breakthrough
WBRC FOX6 - Alabama man free of Sickle Cell after gene therapy
WebMD - Reclaiming my time: Mobile man is first in state to be sickle cell free through gene therapy
Fox 10 - Alabama man first in the state to become sickle cell free through new therapy
WPDE ABC 15 - Byron está cambiando su vida, marcada por la anemia falciforme and Trasplante de médula realizado en los Institutos Nacionales de Salud está cambiando la vida de Byron
CNN en Español
- Potential Sickle Cell breakthrough
- Here's what you should know before joining a clinical trial
The Mighty - A peek into opioid users’ brains as they try to quit
AP - Capital Comment/ Big Picture: Thinking Cap
Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, a team of doctors, engineers, technicians, and physical therapists have gathered to map the brain activity of a two-year-old subject named Ethan.
Washingtonian - The science behind fever dreams
TIME -
A study at the NIH Clinical Center found that people ate significantly more calories and gained more weight when they were fed a diet that was high in ultra-processed foods.
- How processed foods may make you eat more
Forbes - Why eating processed foods might make you fat
New York Times - Overprocessed foods add 500 calories to your diet every day, causing weight gain
CNN - Here's what eating processed foods for two weeks does to your body
Time - Ultraprocessed foods cause people to gain weight, study finds
NBC News
- How processed foods may make you eat more
- Could gene therapy cure sickle cell anemia?
An NIH clinical trial is ushering in a genetic revolution as an innovative type of gene therapy is used to attempt to cure sickle cell anemia.
CBS 60 Minutes - #ACTRIMS2019 – Game-like Smartphone App Used to Test Neurological Disability in MS
Multiple Sclerosis News Today - When the illness is a mystery, patients turn to these detectives
NIH Clinical Center patients Dee Reynolds and Zarko Stanacev share their journey.
The New York Times
2018:
- NIH celebrates holidays with gingerbread house contest
The Hill - Finding answers for patients with the rarest of rare diseases
Associated Press - Scientists race to improve 'Living Drugs' to fight cancer
Update: A young man's experiment with a 'Living Drug' for Leukemia
A 20-year-old receives treatment for his leukemia with CAR-T cell therapy at the NIH Clinical Center.
NPR - Clinical Trials and You: For people with cancer and other illnesses, clinical trials can offer hope—but know the risks
WebMD Magazine - She had a lot of rashes, but don’t all kids?
The Washington Post -
Groundbreaking Immunotherpy trial at the NIH Clinical Center
- 'I have definitely hit the jackpot.' Advanced breast cancer disappears after new immunotherapy
Los Angeles Times - Therapy Made From Patient's Immune System Shows Promise For Advanced Breast Cancer
NPR - Researchers use immune-cell ‘army’ to battle another tough cancer
The Washington Post - Groundbreaking treatment saves life of woman with late-stage breast cancer
CBS News - New Immunotherapy Treatment Removes All Tumors In Woman With Advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer
Forbes - Experimental immune treatment saves dying breast cancer patient
NBC News
- 'I have definitely hit the jackpot.' Advanced breast cancer disappears after new immunotherapy
- Tackle the patient cultural divide with these technologies
Managed Healthcare Executive - In a coma for days, Va. college athlete overcomes near-death experience with mono
Participant in study at the NIH Clinical Center helps advance research on mononucleosis.
DCW50 Television - Dripping candle wax' bone disease: scientists find cause of rare condition that causes bones to 'flow'
Though there are only about 400 known cases of this disorder worldwide, 15 unrelated adults with the condition from around the globe volunteered to come to the NIH Clinical Center to undergo biopsies of both affected and unaffected bones.
Newsweek - Poor sleep may cause an increase in brain protein linked to Alzheimer's
The study, which included 20 participants at the NIH Clinical Center, shows that sleep deprivation is linked to higher levels of a protein called beta-amyloid—a notorious precursor to Alzheimer's disease.
Quartz - NIH Clinical Center taps retired Navy captain as new COO
Becker's Hospital review - From Bench to Bedside: Researchers of NIH's Clinical Center
NIH MedlinePlus magazine - New paths to cure cancer emerge from immunotherapy trials
Yahoo News - Catching the flu on purpose, for science
ABC Good Morning America
2017:
- One man's choice: Life without a stomach, or dying from stomach cancer?
The Washington Post - (VIDEO) Life without a stomach: Surgery to prevent gastric cancer
In an online story and a segment broadcast on air, a Maryland patient talks about his participation in an clinical trial at the NIH Clinical Center studying the effects of stomach removal for those who have an inherited risk of stomach cancer.
NBC 4 - After 2-year, 'nerve-wracking' bone marrow treatment, Crystal Lake girl returns to school
Chicago Tribune -
First in Human
- Exclusive Interview with Terry Fry and John Tisdale and article on Job's Syndrome
Monsters & Critics - Temple native's sickle cell case to be featured on Discovery program
Temple Daily Telegram News - (VIDEO) Jim Parsons on Documentary First In Human
Jimmy Kimmel Live - (VIDEO) Feature on First in Human
Dish - Discovery's 'First In Human' Calls Much-Needed Attention To Clinical Trials
Forbes - First in Human: New Discovery Channel Show Looks Like a Keeper
TV Overmind - Discovery Communications documentary series features NIH clinical research patients and staff
Huffington Post - Jim Parsons to narrate Discovery's "First in Human"
RealScreen - Jim Parsons set to narrate Discovery Channel's documentary series First in Human
Unprecedented access to inside the National Institutes of Health's Building 10 that premiered in August 2017.
Discovery Communications
- Exclusive Interview with Terry Fry and John Tisdale and article on Job's Syndrome
- Robotic Exoskeleton Development
- Robotic exoskeletons show promise as tool to help kids with cerebral palsy walk easier
STAT News - Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better
New Scientist - Robotic exoskeleton can improve how kids with cerebral palsy walk
Digital Trends - NIH develops robot exoskeleton for cerebral palsy patients
The Washington Times - Exoskeleton suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk smoothly by improving knee extension that is hindered by the disorder
Daily Mail
- Robotic exoskeletons show promise as tool to help kids with cerebral palsy walk easier
- Why were a little girl's muscles as weak as noodles? The answer was unexpected.
The Washington Post - Deep learning poised to revolutionise diagnostic imaging
The Lancet: Respiratory Medicine - Latinos left out of clinical trials ... and possible cures
Three patients at the NIH Clinical Center discuss their experience participating in a clinical trial.
Kaiser Health News
2016:
- "Healing" Objets d’art shine in Minerals in Medicine
JAMA - (VIDEO) This 8-year-old is free of cancer - for now - after a 'breakthrough' treatment
The Washington Post - Immunotherapy could transform systemic power of locoregional IO [Interventional Oncology] treatments
"Good things happen when we think outside the box, leave our comfort zone, and embrace the success stories of other disciplines. So goes it with interventional oncology and immunotherapy," said Bradford Wood, NIH Clinical Center senior researcher.
Interventional News - Joyful noise fills halls of hospital: National Symphony Orchestra performs at NIH Clinical Center
WUSA News 9
Note: The concert marked the NSO's 16th visit to the NIH Clinical Center, not the 14th year as reported. - McGowan drawn to NIH's healthcare mission
Equal Opportunity Magazine - Living with chronic pain: Millions of Americans live with unbearable chronic pain, here's how three of them are dealing with it
Bethesda Magazine - National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (Bethesda, Md.) | 100 great hospitals in America 2016
Becker's Healthcare - (VIDEO) Why it's hard to keep the pounds off: A study conducted in the NIH Clinical Center of contestants from "The Biggest Loser" Season 8 helps explain why
New York Times - Seven-year-old patient gets a 'Frozen' gift from a nurse who braved the blizzard
The Washington Post - Minerals in Medicine
- The matter of medicine
The Lancet - Minerals used in dermatology part of NIH-Smithsonian exhibit
Dermatology News - (VIDEO) Exhibit Highlights Critical Roles Minerals Play in Human Health
Voice of America - The Medicinal Power of Minerals: The National Institutes of Health launches an exhibition to showcase the beauty and important role of minerals in human health and biomedicine
The ASCO Post - Glittering, mesmerizing, lifesaving: Hospital exhibit showcases minerals used in medicine
Smithsonian Insider - Minerals in Medicine Exhibition: NIH, Smithsonian collaborate to highlight health applications of minerals
Chemical & Engineering News Magazine
- The matter of medicine









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