NICHD Director’s Corner June 2024

BRAIN at 10: A View from NICHD Cross-posted from The BRAIN Blog NIH’s BRAIN Initiative is marking a milestone—10 years of advancing neuroscience and neurotechnology research by funding innovative projects. Dr. Bianchi shares her voice and perspective on the impact...

NICHDevelopments April 2024

News Repurposed drug shows promise against endometriosis-related pain in animal model Fenoprofen, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, successfully alleviated pain and inflammation in a rodent model of endometriosis, according to a study funded by NICHD. The study...
NICHD Director’s Corner: Address Infertility

NICHD Director’s Corner: Address Infertility

Millions of lives are affected by infertility, a condition defined clinically as being unable to achieve pregnancy after one year of regularly having unprotected intercourse, or after six months if the female partner is older than 35 years. Last fall, the American...

NICHDevelopments: March 2024

Timing of COVID-19 vaccination drives menstrual cycle changes Receiving a COVID-19 vaccine during the first half of the menstrual cycle is linked to a small, temporary increase in cycle length, suggests a study funded by NIH. Analysis of data from nearly 20,000 people...

NICHD Director’s Corner

Elucidating the Effects of Digital Media on Children Use of technology and digital media is nearly universal among children and adolescents in the United States, and it plays a key role in our nation’s unprecedented youth mental health crisis. Last year, building on...

NICHDevelopments January 2024

News NIH researchers create an atlas detailing early stages of zebrafish development Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have published an atlas of zebrafish development, detailing the gene expression programs that are activated within nearly every cell...