NCRR of the NIH in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the CTSA program has announced pre-registration for a symposium on evolving approaches that take advantage of electronic health records, biorepositories and genotyping to create new opportunities for clinical phenotyping.

The NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) has issued new funding opportunity announcements (FOAs).

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins spoke with the media Tuesday afternoon about Monday's federal district court injunction that halted federally funded human embryonic stem cell research.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, announced the appointment of Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD, as NIH principal deputy director. Tabak assumes the position held by Raynard Kington, MD, PhD, who served as NIH deputy director since 2003, as well as acting NIH director from October 2008 to August 2009.

Topics of potential interest to sleep and circadian clinical researchers may include economic evaluations of preventive interventions to identify cost-effective, cost-beneficial approaches to improving health across the lifespan; modeling the effects of prevention measures (e.g. using biomarkers of disease risk) on health costs and outcomes, individual and provider responses; and identifying strategies that promote adoption of effective prevention measures.

The Trans-NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Opportunity Network (OppNet) solicits Research Project Grant (R01) applications to investigate the biopsychosocial "mechanisms" underlying reciprocal interactions between the processes of sleep and circadian regulation and function with behavioral and social environment processes

Results show that the overall self-reported obesity prevalence in the U.S. was 26.7 percent, an increase of 1.1 percentage points from 2007.

Each year the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes grants to exceptionally creative scientists through the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, New Innovator Award, and the Transformative Research Projects Award programs.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) issued a funding opportunity announcement .

The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive programs website has comprehensive information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) including new tip sheets.