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The H1N1 virus strain that caused a 2009 swine flu outbreak in humans was detected in northern elephant seals off the coast of central California.Scientists say this is the first time marine mammals have been found to carry the H1N1 flu strain, which originated in pigs. The seals seem to have picked up the virus while at sea, but it's unclear how this happened."We thought we might find influenza viruses, which have been found before in marine mammals, but we did not expect to find pandemic H1N1," Tracey Goldstein, an associate professor with the UC Davis One Health Institute and Wildlife Health Center, said in a statement. [ 10 Deadly Diseases That Hopped Across Species ]" H1N1 was circulating in humans in 2009," Goldstein added. "The seals on land in early 2010 tested negative before they went to sea, but when they returned from sea in spring 2010, they tested positive. So the question is where did it come from?"Contact with humans carrying the virus is unlikely when the elephant seal...
A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.The Washington Post report...
Junior Seau's family has donated some of his brain tissue for research amid questions about whether damage from his football career contributed to his decision to co...
The federal government helped fund a study that examined what effect a gay man's penis size has on his sex life and general well-being. The study was among several b...
The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of dollars over the past decade to fund the construction of an HIV-prevention website that, among other sexually...
Bad news in the fight against the AIDS virus: The government is halting a large U.S. study of a possible HIV vaccine because the experimental shots aren't preventing...
In January, I wrote here about my clinical experience that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes as they are known, seemed to help my patients quit smoking, by tran...
Potomac Research Group chief Washington strategist Greg Valliere weighs in on whether there will be more sequester quick fixes down the line.
Milken Institute Chairman Michael Milken and National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins on the impact on the biotech sector of reaching the fiscal cliff.
The United States National Institutes of Health said on Thursday it will share intellectual property rights on some AIDS drugs in a patent pool designed to make trea...
WASHINGTON -- The federal government's chief medical facility will start harvesting embryonic stem cells after the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday announc...
Lawmakers in Washington are calling on the National Institutes of Health to explain why millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on seemingly ridiculous research...
The federal government is spending $423,500 to find out why men don't like to wear condoms, a project government watchdogs say is a nearly-half-a-million-dollar wast...
Call it the great brain train.Baby boomers, students, and the elderly all share at least one anxiety: Are my mental abilities holding me back? So it's not surprising...
The life of an individual suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often a debilitating one, as patients are frequently plagued by intense nightmares,...
New research is raising fresh concern that an age-old treatment for troubled pregnancies - bed rest - doesn't seem to prevent premature birth, and might even worsen ...
Despite public health progress in cutting calories, as well as salt and fat from fast foods and supermarket products, neighborhood restaurants are still packing big ...
FBN's Jo Ling Kent breaks down mid-afternoon market news.
Dr. Bernadine Healy, the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health and the leader of the American Red Cross during the Sept. 11 terror attacks, has die...
A conservative group is calling on Congress to temporarily suspend funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after releasing a study that found the agency w...
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