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Clinical Center in the News

2020:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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