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NIH awards 10 grants addressing firearm violence prevention research
NIH awards 10 grants addressing firearm violence prevention research.
Call for Papers—Pain and Opioids: A Public Health Crisis
To better understand the current pain and opioid public heath crises, the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, invites articles that focu…
NIH Participating in Smart Health and Biomedical Research Interagency Program with National Science Foundation
NIH is participating in the Smart Health and Biomedical Research Interagency Program with National Science Foundation that focuses on era of artificial intelligence and advanced data science.
Publication Rates from Biomedical and Behavioral and Social Science R01s Funded by the NIH
A small percentage of R01 and U01 grantees fail to publish in a timely manner. Factors including human research, clinical trial research, child research, not being an early stage investigator, and conducting behavioral and social sciences research in…
NIH Awards Grants for Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research
NIH awarded grants for firearm injury and mortality prevention research.
A Novel Approach to Childhood Obesity Prevention from National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR)
Research on childhood obesity intervention strategies.
Why Testing is the Key to Getting Back to Normal
RADx will establish COVID-19 testing technologies.