| Clinical Center gives first research participant bone marrow stromal cells |
A1C fact sheet explains test for diabetes, prediabetes |
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| The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, gave bone marrow stromal cells to its first research participant March 15, 2012. Dr. David Stroncek, chief of the Department of Transfusion Medicine's Cell Processing Section, explains the process. |
A NIH fact sheet aims to help people better understand a test called the A1C, which is used to diagnose type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, and to monitor people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.The A1C Test and Diabetes fact sheet is free and available online: www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/A1CTest. (Visual description: This video shows NIH Clinical Center staff members working with medical samples in a laboratory setting to complete tests. NIH Clinical Center's Dr. David Sacks is interviewed.) |
| Clinical Center celebrates Lasker award with reception, Sept. 28, 2011 |
The NIH Clinical Center - 2011 Lasker Award Recipient |
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| The NIH Clinical Center is the 2011 recipient of the Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award given by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. The award honors the Clinical Center for serving as a model institution that has since 1953 transformed scientific advances into innovative therapies and provided high-quality care to patients and recognizes the Clinical Center's rich history of medical discovery through clinical research. |
Each year a few discoveries are singled out from the thousands of basic and clinical research advances for the Lasker Award. Here, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation explains by the NIH Clinical Center earns the 2011 Lasker~Bloomberg Award. |
| Clinical Center's new whole-body simultaneous PET and MRI Scanner |
Roadmapping the Small Bowel |
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| Researchers have a new weapon in their arsenal to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among military service members and civilians. The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center began imaging patients last week on a first-of-its-kind, whole-body simultaneous positron emission topography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. The Biograph mMR offers a more complete picture of abnormal metabolic activity in a shorter time frame than separate MRI and PET scans, two tests many patients undergo. The purchase of the Biograph mMR was made possible through the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM), a Department of Defense-funded collaboration between the NIH and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The CNRM carries out research in TBI and PTSD that would benefit servicemen and women at Walter Reed National Navy Medical Center, near the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. Researchers at the NIH Clinical Center will also use the Biograph mMR in studies with patients with other brain disorders, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. View the NIH News press release at http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2011/cc-26.htm |
An intramural research project at the NIH Clinical Center is working to roadmap the small bowel -- an intricate organ that presents challenging imaging issues for clinicians looking for lesions, polyps, and tumors. Dr. Ronald Summers, senior investigator and staff radiologist chief at the NIH Clinical Center's Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis Laboratory said they're trying to create a better diagnostic tool. |
| Heart Valve Exhibit Opening |
Molecular Diagnostics |
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| Current and former researchers, patients, leadership and staff gathered to open the "NIH and Prosthetic Heart Valves" exhibit July 11. The exhibit is located in the South Lobby of the campus' Clinical Center, building 10. It was produced by the Office of NIH History's DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research, in collaboration with the FDA's Office of History. |
Figuring out what is making someone sick. It all starts with a strand of DNA for the Molecular Diagnostics team at the NIH Clinical Center. |