Will NIH be the next to use smartphones for gathering data?

NIH may be the next to join Apple and Google in using technology (i.e. smartphones) to help gather information for clinical trials. This new step for the NIH came under the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). President Obama hopes the PMI will “bring us...

NIH provides funding for rare disease studies

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently awarded $29 million toward the advancement of clinical research and investigation of treatments for rare diseases. This is part of a collaborative effort to expand the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network...

NIH consolidates brain samples into one program

Cassandra Leger from bioresearchonline.com covered recent development regarding the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) plans to create a program to expedite research designed to treat brain disorders. The NIH is planning on turning their new biospecimens...