In Era of Tight Funds, NIH Seeks to Nurture New Scientists and Novel Ideas
The National Institutes of Health, the major funding institution for medical research, remains hampered in an era of federal budget constraints. Read more in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (August 8, 2007)

Recent NIH Budgets Do Not Support Scientists, says Gene Sperling, former National Economic Council Director, in How to Get Fewer Scientists. (The Washington Post, July 24, 2007)

Case of Traveler with TB Reveals Holes in Global Disease Control
“The episode revealed holes in international cooperation systems for detecting and isolating people with infectious diseases… Such deficiencies could be disastrous if the victim were more contagious, as would be likely in an influenza pandemic… We’re all learning lessons from this case, particularly the U.S. Centers for Disease Control …” Click here to read more.

May 18 Was HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
It marked the occasion, 10 years ago, when President Clinton challenged the world to develop a vaccine for HIV/AIDS over the following decade. Although we have not yet met the challenge, we still hold the potential to achieve what would undoubtedly be one of the greatest triumphs of this century. Click here to "be the generation that ends HIV/AIDS."

Why an AIDS Vaccine?
Since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of a novel immunodeficiency disease a quarter of a century ago, the need for a vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS has never been clearer (International AIDS Vaccine Initiative).

NIH Marked the 10th Annual HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
The day was an opportunity to reflect on the more than two decades of progress worldwide in the search for a safe and effective HIV vaccine. Listen to the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, online at http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/.

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Global Health: The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services held a hearing on fiscal year (FY) 2008 Global Health spending. Opening the hearing, subcommittee Chairman Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said, “When this subcommittee funds programs to end child labor abroad, fight diseases overseas, improve health conditions in developing countries, it shows the world the best side of America.” Watch the hearing online by clicking here.

German Researchers Find Protein that Blocks HIV: Hopeful Discovery for AIDS Treatment, but Testing Could Take Years
Read the article here.

Virulent New Strain of TB Raising Fears of Pandemic: Bug Is Resistant to Most Available Drugs. Read the article here.