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This article is the third in a three-part series about the NHLBI CADET II program. Although a variety of treatment options are available for patients with lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), some patients do not respond to existing medications or experience side effects that limit the patients’ ability to...

COPD This article is the first in a three-part series about the NHLBI CADET II program. Although a variety of treatment options are available for patients with lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), some patients do not respond to existing medications or experience side effects that limit the patients’...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute honors the pioneering women who participated in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) – one of the largest women’s health projects ever launched in the United States – for their critically important contributions to advancing women’s health. The WHI, first awarded in 1992, studied strategies to prevent...

Over the past 50 years, the incidence of heart disease has decreased in most of the U.S. population. Unfortunately, however, it has increased among American Indians to the point that it is now double that of the general population.

Credit: Strong Heart Study Highlights

This finding is just one of many revealed about the health of...

Q: What is the difference between dietary cholesterol and cholesterol levels in the body?

Cholesterol in the body is a waxy, fat-like substance found in cell walls that comes from two sources: the body and the food we eat. The body, especially the liver, makes all the cholesterol it needs, and...

Q. What did the researchers discover? A. The NHLBI-funded researchers discovered a novel means by which viruses spread between cells: multiple polioviruses, a type of enterovirus, travel together within a membrane-enclosed sac, arriving together at a cell they then infect. Q. How do the viral clusters form? A. After the viruses reproduce themselves...

In both sickle cell disease (SCD) and thalassemias, known collectively as hemoglobinopathies, the bone marrow produces red blood cells that contain mutated hemoglobin. The consequences of this mutation can be severe. In SCD, for example, several biological processes are impaired, and damage occurs to almost every organ system. Given the complex...

National Institutes of Health- (NIH) supported research is shedding light on how sleep and lack of sleep affect the human body. The NIH and its partners will continue to work together to advance sleep research. Download a jpg file of the infographic.

Scientists have been using fluorescent proteins, ultraviolet light and optical microscopes since the 1990s to tag and observe living cells. This groundbreaking technique, based on a naturally occurring protein found in bioluminescent jellyfish, garnered a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Subsequent...