Institutes

Dr. Vivian Pinn, Lynchburg native, speaks a women’s health dinner (The News & Advance)

13 May 2008

When Dr. Vivian Pinn was tapped to be the first director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health for the National Institutes of Health, she thought she’d be there a few years.

Marijuana may up heart attack, stroke risk: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

13 May 2008

Heavy marijuana use can boost blood levels of a particular protein, perhaps raising a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.

Molecular pathway in muscle helps explain effectiveness of diabetes interventions (News-Medical-Net)

13 May 2008

Scientists at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), demonstrate for the first time in a mouse model that skeletal muscle cells cultured in a low-calorie environment refrain from differentiating, an energy-demanding process by which cells mature and specialize.