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Acts of kindness, big and small, occur in unexpected places. Such was the experience for Karen Wilson of San Antonio.

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.

Construction progress of the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center appears to have taken off. This is no surprise to those overseeing the project.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Five Clinical Center staff took leave in July and paid their way to the Dominican Republic, to help to treat more than 600 people in need of medical attention.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson spent four days touring NIH last month to familiarize himself with the latest medical research and internal operations.

About 60 high school students came to the Clinical Center as part of the National Native-American Youth Initiative, designed to bring Native
American Indians into the field of biomedical research. The initiative, sponsored by the Association of American Indian Physicians, began four years ago in an effort to motivate Native American students to remain in academics and pursue a career in the health profession or biomedical research.

As new and innovative cancer treatments are developed daily, so too is the knowledge-base of the nurses on the 2 East Surgical Immunotherapy Unit at the NIH Clinical Center.

Clinical Center Director Dr. John Gallin has been named the 2001 Physician Executive of the Year by the Physicians Professional Advisory Committee of the U.S. Public Health Service.

It’s time to retire and recycle those mercury-filled thermometers and blood pressure cups because the Division of Safety (DS) is “mad as a hatter” about mercury, and with your help they hope to eliminate it from the NIH.

With many patients traveling to the Clinical Center from foreign countries, the need for interpreters has grown significantly over the past 10 years.