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NIH 2013 African American History Month Observance Program (NIH Only)
NIH 2013 National African American History Observance Program. National African American History is celebrated in recognition of the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans. Keynote Speaker is Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)Air date: 2/20/2013 9:30:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 19, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Human DNA repair disorders: a historical perspective, 1968-2013
DNA Repair Interest Group videoconferenceAir date: 5/21/2013 12:30:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 15, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

The Global Role of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services: A Historical Perspective (HHS Only)
Presented by: Sec. Kathleen Sebelius and William Foege, M.D., MPHCategory: HHS OnlyAired date: 01/10/2013 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 11, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video

The Global Role of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services: A Historical Perspective (HHS Only)
Please join Secretary Sebelius for this inaugural address of the Secretary’s Global Health and Human Services Lecture Series. Dr. Foege, whose history at HHS goes back to the early days of smallpox eradication, will speak about the Department’s evolving role in global health and the importance of our global work in protecting and advancing the health of Americans as well as all the world's citizens. Dr. Foege is a distinguished epidemiologist and civil servant who is credited with devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the 1970s—the first, and so far only, infectious disease of human...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 9, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Medical Radiation and cancer risk: assessing the price of progress
Radiation exposure to the US population from diagnostic imaging has increased 6-fold in the last three decades, primarily due to the rapid increase in CT scans from 1 to 80 million per year. Despite the great medical benefits there are concerns about the potential future cancer risks from CT and other higher dose imaging tests such as nuclear medicine cardiac stress tests. Dr. Berrington's Radiation Epidemiology Branch conducted the first study to directly assess the cancer risks after CT scans in a historical cohort study of 200,000 children in the UK. Dr. Berrington will discuss the first results from this study and also...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 14, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

The NIH at 125: Today's Discoveries, Tomorrow's Cures
NIH Research Festival Opening Plenary Session. Cholera, plague, smallpox and yellow fever. These were the four epidemic diseases subject to quarantine that most concerned Joseph James Kinyoun, the founder and, for several years, sole employee of the Laboratory of Hygiene in the U.S. Marine Hospital Service. The NIH traces its roots to Kinyoun's one-room laboratory established in August 1887. At the 2012 NIH Research Festival we celebrate our quasquicentennial by honoring Kinyoun's legacy, reflecting on NIH successes, and contemplating at the potential of the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) in the years to come. Wher...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 1, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video