2019 Additional Coverage
Sickle Cell Disease gene therapy and transplant trials at the NIH Clinical Center, featured:
- 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
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Clinical Center in the News
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 - Potential Sickle Cell breakthrough
WBRC-TV (FOX) - 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 - The Deep Learning Technique Best Poised to Change Radiology
Bioengineering Today - 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 - What is a clinical trial?
Health Navigator NY
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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