National Institute of Health

The baseball used by Dr. Anthony Fauci for his ceremonial first pitch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season is now soaring to even greater heights. The baseball is going up for auction Tuesday and the proceeds will benefit children facing life-challenging illnesses at the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health. “We are very excited to be able…

The baseball used by Dr. Anthony Fauci for his first pitch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season is up for auction and the proceeds will benefit the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

National Institute of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins explains how scientists will make sure any vaccines go through proper testing to ensure safety and that transparency will be crucial to stop conspiracy theories.

The new coronavirus can survive for several hours in air particles and last days on surfaces, according to a new federally funded study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UCLA and Princeton University examined how long COVID-19 survives in the air as well as on copper,...

Dr. Anthony Fauci discusses the latest on the Coronavirus outbreak including the big threat from Europe and the decrease in cases in China.

Tests led by U.S. government scientists show that the new coronavirus can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for up to three days

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have come up withthe most complete and definitive canine family tree, NBC News reported. They’ve spent more than 20 years sampling the genes of 161 breeds of dog, sequencing them and comparing them to show how breeds were mixed and matched to make new breeds. The geneolgy also gives a rough timeline and...

The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is testing an experimental drug that could save lives in the fight against the opioid epidemic.

Federal police officers arrested a Silver Spring, Maryland, woman suspected of attempting to steal sensitive medical specimens and equipment from the clinical center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

An unemployed woman with possible mental health concerns is accused of entering a secured lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Scott MacFarlane reports.

Two of four experimental Ebola drugs being tested in Congo seem to be saving lives, international health authorities announced Monday. The preliminary findings prompted an early halt to a major study on the drugs and a decision to prioritize their use in the African country, where a yearlong outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people. The early results mark “some...

The National Philharmonic is hosting a crowdfunding campaign in an attempt to raise the $150,000 needed to avoid the closure they announced last week. Businessman and philanthropist Jim Kelly has also worked to raise cash pledges to help the orchestra.

A mother remembers her husband after her 17-year-old son fatally stabbed him while driving in Prince George’s County, Maryland. News4’s Derrick Ward has the story.

To save babies from brain-damaging birth defects, University of Pittsburgh scientist Carolyn Coyne studies placentas from fetuses that otherwise would be discarded — and she’s worried this kind of research is headed for the chopping block. The Trump administration is cracking down on fetal tissue research , with new hurdles for government-funded scientists around the country who call the special...

The Trump administration said Wednesday it is ending medical research by government scientists that uses human fetal tissue, overriding the advice of scientists who say it has led to life-saving medical advances and handing abortion opponents a major victory. The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement that government-funded research by universities that involves fetal tissue can continue...

Talk about mystery meat. As plant-based protein makers like Impossible Foods and the newly public Beyond Meat take the food industry by storm, the question of whether their products are better for consumers than actual meat is still very much open, says former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman. “We can’t really market it … as necessarily better for you, because...

Home DNA kits can now test for some life-threatening diseases, but they also have limitations. News4’s Doreen Gentzler explains what you should consider before taking one.

Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis and then from fibromyalgia. “It’s really hard when people can’t see how much pain you’re in, because they...

Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institutes of Health says they are unsure what is causing a mysterious illness that is paralyzing children. Doreen Gentzler reports.

Eight-year-old Abram Dotson has a rare disease that regularly spikes his temperature to as high as 106 degrees.