National Institutes of Health

  • Dr. C. Norman Coleman\'s daily duties immerses him in what \"most people don\'t want to think about,\" and for his exceptional work on radiation, he is a SAMMIES finalist.

    June 13, 2011
  • Traffic in the Route 355 corridor around NIH is only expected to get worse after the transition of employees from Walter Reed to the National Naval Medical Center.

    May 10, 2011
  • Feds who make more than $180,000 a year make up less than one percent of the federal workforce. Leading that pack are doctors, lawyers and dentists. Doctors held roughly eight out of 10 of the top-salaried jobs.

    May 03, 2011
  • More details are emerging about the $38 billion dollar deal lawmakers say they reached to keep the government from shutting down. Some cuts were made by pruning money left over from previous years. More than half of the cuts affect education, labor and health programs. A vote in the House is expected as early as Wednesday and the Senate must pass it by Friday to prevent a shutdown.

    April 12, 2011
  • Peter Alterman, the senior advisor to the chief information officer at NIH, tells Federal News Radio his agency is \"working to understand how new technology options can be used to advance the scientific research agenda\" at the agency.

    April 11, 2011
  • Health and Human Services recognizes six software tools that are leading the way in innovation for the agency.

    March 31, 2011
  • While Google ranks as their ideal employer, many college students say they are interested in working for federal agencies.

    March 21, 2011
  • GWACs explained by GSA\'s Michael O\'Neill, NIH\'s Mary B. Armstead, and NASA\'s Joanne Woytek

    March 18, 2011
  • Teresa Bozelli, chair of the Children\'s Inn Gala, and Linda Berdine, chair of the Board of Directors of The Children\'s Inn at NIH, explain the importance of the organization.

    March 11, 2011
  • A new study that will look at possible health effects of the Gulf of Mexico\'s Deepwater Horizon oil spill on 55,000 cleanup workers and volunteers begins today in towns across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. We get details from Dr. Dale Sandler with NIEHS.

    March 03, 2011
  • The White House agency will help coordinate the process around prize competitions, science and technology education efforts and online access to government data. The America Competes law details several news policy directives for OSTP and other federal scientific agencies.

    January 27, 2011
  • The recent passage of the Telework Enhancement Act substantially changes the status of telework throughout government. But how? We get details from Dr. Scott Overmyer, author of a new study.

    January 24, 2011
  • As the Nation implements recently enacted health reform legislation, our regional businesses are uniquely qualified to assist the federal government to transform Health IT. Maryland is home to HHS, NIH, FDA, NIST, SSA, and the new Cyber Security Command Center and all of these agencies work with businesses to innovate health information technology. Montgomery County\'s Barbara Ashe tells us about a way to bring the sectors together.

    January 18, 2011
  • How to you inspire young people to go into science? If you\'re the head of the NIH, you sing to them! NIH Director Francis Collins demonstrates.

    October 05, 2010