Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said a study on treatments for the babies did not meet requirements for informed consent.
Were the parents of premature babies properly informed of the risks associated with a study on oxygen treatment funded by Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health? A health watchdog group said the parents were not properly informed and is calling for a halt to all similar studies funded by NIH, according to a report from Public News Service. "Those risks included, depending upon which group the children were in, the possibility of blindness, the possibility of brain injury and the possibility even of death from insufficient oxygen," Dr. Michael Carome, deputy director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, told Public News Service. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the study violated requirements for informed …
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Automatic spending cuts at the National Institutes of Health could cost the economy as many as 100,000 jobs.
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By Jeremy Barr, Capital News Service Automatic spending cuts at the National Institutes of Health could cost the economy as many as many 100,000 jobs, Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin said Friday. Across-the-board spending cuts will hit government agencies, including NIH, on March 1 if Congress is unable to reach a deal. The cuts, totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years, are part of a “poison pill” package agreed to by legislators in 2011. NIH would be required to reduce its budget by $1.6 billion for fiscal year 2013, agency director Francis Collins said. The agency would likely have to reduce the funding it provides to medical researchers. “We’re going to lose a lot of potential researchers,” Cardin said at the town hall. Federal workers…
Residents complain of overhead flight noise.
If there’s one thing Bethesda-Chevy Chase residents can bond over, it's hating helicopter noise. Several times a month editors at Patch receive questions or complaints from residents asking about the helicopters heard over their neighborhoods at night. What's going on? Who can we call about the helicopter noises? What’s the number for the county’s helicopter department? Well, the answers are: It depends, a couple of people and there isn’t one. The helicopters you hear flying over Montgomery County are likely one of three types – news choppers, police choppers or medical choppers. “Aside from the occasional news helicopter up covering a crime scene at night, helicopters are typically up at night for rescue or crime fighting reasons,” …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Automatic spending cuts at the National Institutes of Health could cost the economy as many as 100,000 jobs.
By Jeremy Barr Capital News Service BETHESDA - Automatic spending cuts at the National Institutes of Health could cost the economy as many as many 100,000 jobs, Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin said Friday. Across-the-board spending cuts will hit government agencies, including NIH, on March 1 if Congress is unable to reach a deal. The cuts, totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years, are part of a “poison pill” package agreed to by legislators in 2011. NIH would be required to reduce its budget by $1.6 billion for fiscal year 2013, agency director Francis Collins said. The agency would likely have to reduce the funding it provides to medical researchers. “We’re going to lose a lot of potential researchers,” Cardin said at the town hall. …
Thursday, December 6, 2012
With help from Montgomery County police, Santa will ride from Germantown to the Children’s Inn in Bethesda to deliver gifts to sick kids.
As part of a charitable effort by Montgomery County police, a motorcycle-riding St. Nick—flanked by 20 of Montgomery County’s finest—will carry donated gifts to Children’s Inn in Bethesda on Wednesday. Santa’s “sleigh” ride begins in Germantown at 10 a.m. at the District 5 station in Germantown then makes two stops — Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce on Clopper Road and Sheehy Ford on Frederick Road. Santa plans to lunch at Vince & Dominics Pizzeria in Bethesda. The motorcade is expected to reach Children’s Inn by 5:30 p.m., just in time for a party. Part of the National Institutes of Health, Children’s Inn is a nonprofit facility that offers lodging for children receiving treatment at NIH and their families. Police are still …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Pact would require notification of the public.
After a fatal “superbug” swept through the National Institutes of Health earlier this year unbeknownst to the public, state and county officials are on the verge of an agreement that will require NIH to report outbreaks of similar hospital-acquired infections, according to Montgomery County's health officer. Last fall, a drug-resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae spread throughout NIH’s research hospital, infecting 18 people. Twelve of those cases were fatal; seven attributed to Klebsiella. Federal and state guidelines did not require NIH to report the outbreak, and NIH officials said they chose not to alert the public earlier because healthy people outside the hospital were at little to no risk, The Washington Post reported. …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
An antibiotic-resistant superbug, which spread through the hospital last year, has killed a boy whose case was the first reported there since January.
A “superbug” infection killed a boy on Sept. 7 at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda. He was the seventh victim of the bacterial strain, The Washington Post reported. The victim, a seriously ill boy from Minnesota, died of a bloodstream infection, according to the report. The boy’s case marks the first new infection at the clinical center since January, The Post reported. An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae was first detected in a patient at the clinical center in August 2011 and spread to 17 additional patients, 11 of whom died. Staff there attributed six of the deaths directly to the superbug, The Post reported. Klebsiella infections can pose a threat to seriously ill, hospitalized patients with …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Online petition says ‘the Rockville 15’ should go to a sanctuary, not to a Louisiana lab.
The Humane Society and other animal rights activists are calling for 15 young chimpanzees used for research by the National Institutes of Health and housed at a Rockville laboratory to be sent to an animal sanctuary rather than back to the Louisiana research center that owns them. The Humane Society of the United States issued a statement on Tuesday calling the transfer of the chimpanzees from BIOQUAL, Inc. in Rockville to the New Iberia Research Center “disappointing.” Since 1986, the Rockville lab has housed chimpanzees used as research subjects by NIH, the journal Nature reported. Now, with the use of chimpanzees for research waning and the scientists who conducted such research retiring, NIH no longer needs the chimps, Nature …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Ten small veteran-owned firms share a potential $20 billion in contracts.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded ten major information technology contracts to small firms owned by disabled veterans, including TISTA Science and Technology Corporation on Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda and LongView International Technology Solutions, Inc., in North Bethesda, plus eight others in the Washington, DC, area. The contracts all are for 10 years, with an overall cap of $20 billion, according to a report in Washington Technology. And, "NIH is expected to award more positions to small businesses and release a list of all awardees in the future." Executive Order 13360 directs that at least 3 percent of all federal agency contracting dollars go to firms owned by service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses. In …
Monday, September 12, 2011
Hayley Segall, an 8th grader at Pyle Middle School, makes a money donation for the purchase of laptops to the Children's Inn at NIH.
Thirteen-year-old Hayley Segall made her way through extensive security at the National Institutes of Health to present Children's Inn Information Systems Director Rick Saunders with a $1,645 check, last Thursday afternoon. Though the heavy rain that drenched Montgomery County kept many off the roads last week, Hayley and her parents braved the storm to finish a project Hayley had been working on for months. The check given to the Children’s Inn at NIH for “Hayley’s Laptop Project” will help fund the purchase of four laptops for the Inn’s residents, young patients of NIH and their families. As part of Hayley’s requirements for her Bat Mitzvah, which she celebrated in May of this year, Hayley needed to come up with a Tikkun Olam, or …
Rachele Sills
12:57 pm on Friday, April 26, 2013
It seems the military flights patrol around residential area day and night after 911. Those flights make loud noise frequently and follow innocent citizens everywhere. It's very annoying and disturbing! more ›