Clinical Center News
Updated FAES gift store opens in the atrium
Top selling books, unique apparel for kids, coffee mugs and more adorned by the trusty NIH logo now occupy the updated gift store in the Clinical Center atrium.
Motivational speaker showcases importance of improvising, adapting and innovating at work
On Dec. 3, 2016, energetic and lively public speaker Avish Parashar gave a seminar, "Improvise, Adapt, and Innovate in an Ever-Changing World," to a captive NIH audience at the Clinical Center.
An extraordinary opportunity: high school student shares her volunteer experience
As a high school student, I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to work as an intern in the Clinical Center’s Office of Communications and Media Relation (OCMR) at the NIH.
Project SEARCH Success Attracts County Leadership Attention
Leaders from Montgomery County including County Executive Isiah Leggett and Director of Human Resources Joe Adler, visited the Clinical Center Dec. 5, 2011, to learn more about the NIH Project SEARCH program.
Patient Finds Answers at the Clinical Center
After 21 years of questions, a patient finds answers at the Clinical Center through the Undiagnosed Diseases Program which was launch on May 19, 2008.
NIH Blood Donor Owns Guinness World Record
Guinness World Records in London has proclaimed Howard P. Drew Jr., a regular at the Department of Transfusion Medicine’s blood bank, the world’s most prolific blood donor.
Responding to a Need: Cultural Brokers Bridge Diverse Patient Worlds
The Clinical Center has responded to its international patient population by hiring two multilingual interpreters, a first in Clinical Center history.
‘Angel in Disguise’ Gives Coworker New Chance at Life
Acts of kindness, big and small, occur in unexpected places. Such was the experience for Karen Wilson of San Antonio.
NIH Serves as Accreditation Practice Site
NIH went under the microscope for ten days in December and January, when a team from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP), evaluated clinical research programs as part of a pilot to develop an accreditation process for human subjects research.
CRC Construction Makes Steady Progress
Construction progress of the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center appears to have taken off. This is no surprise to those overseeing the project.
Responding to the Call of Freedom: Laboratory Medicine Recognized by Naval Medical Center
The Clinical Center Department of Laboratory Medicine’s Microbiology Service has received special recognition for its response to the anthrax crisis in October when Washington, D.C. postal workers and Capitol Hill staff were victimized by a bioterrism assault.
Potential Vaccine Receives Overwhelming Response
When Dr. Norberto Soto sought out people to receive an experimental vaccine for shingles he thought it would be a difficult task. But it wasn’t.
Anthrax Threat Places Clinical Center Staff in Crucial Role
A group of 27 Clinical Center nurses and pharmacists were deployed to the Washington, D.C. area, to educate and test postal workers and congressional staff, and dispense antibiotics to anyone who may have come in contact with the anthrax spores.
AIDS Vaccine Hopes to Outsmart Fatal Virus
Investigators at the VRC made it their mission to outsmart the AIDS virus working to develop a vaccine to prevent HIV infection. Last month, they took their initial step when a 56-year-old California man came to the eighth floor clinic as the first volunteer in the first HIV vaccine protocol.
Feeling (In)Secure
The first sign of heightened security at NIH in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. is gridlock along Old Georgetown Road and Rockville Pike.