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Adam L. Boxer M.D. Ph.D. who leads the RDCRN-supported Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) Clinical Research Consortium is exploring a group of progressive brain diseases that damage brain networks controlling behavior cognition and movement. This image illustrates severe brain tissue loss over one year for patients with two types of FTLD: behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

NIH funds research consortia to study more than 200 rare diseases

Press Release | October 8, 2014
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NIH announces network to accelerate medicines for rheumatoid arthritis and lupus

Press Release | September 24, 2014
NIAMS Director Dr. Stephen I. Katz and Deputy Director Dr. Robert Carter welcome new members to the institute’s council. Pictured are (front row from l) Dr. Gwendolyn Powell Todd Dr. Katz and Dr. Carter. At rear are (from l) Dr. Christy Sandborg Dr. Gary Koretzky Dr. Grace Pavlath and Alexander Silver.

NIAMS welcomes five new advisory council members

Press Release | August 16, 2014
Blood vessels (outlined in yellow) of children with SAVI become inflamed

NIH scientists identify gene linked to fatal inflammatory disease in children

Press Release | July 17, 2014
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NIH, PCORI announce major award to prevent falls injuries in older people

Press Release | June 14, 2014
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NIH, PCORI announce major award to prevent falls injuries in older people

Press Release | June 14, 2014
Researchers at the NIH examined scans of the hip and lower spine to determine the effects of hormone treatment on bone mineral density of women with primary ovarian insufficiency.

Hormone treatment restores bone density for young women with menopause-like con…

Press Release | June 9, 2014
NIAMS Scientific Director John J O'Shea M.D.

NIH scientist to receive Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine

Press Release | April 23, 2014
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Research consortium including NIH proposes diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia

Press Release | April 15, 2014
A variation in the gene that makes a key blood vessel enzyme makes children prone to fevers rash and strokes.NHGRI/NIH

NIH team discovers genetic disorder causing strokes and vascular inflammation i…

Press Release | February 19, 2014
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