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 NIH Research Matters
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          2019 Research Highlights — Human Health Advances    
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          NIH accomplishments in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment include treatments for the Ebola virus, gene therapy that reverses a rare immune disorder, and a blood test to detect myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
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          NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include a way to predict which people at risk for psychosis may progress to full psychosis, insights into recurrent tonsillitis, and a patch to replace damaged retinal cells.
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          Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include evidence linking enterovirus infections with acute flaccid myelitis, insights into how disrupted sleep may lead to heart disease, and nanoparticle robots that sweep away biofilms.
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          Three commonly prescribed anti-seizure drugs worked equally well for seizures in patients with a severe form of epilepsy called refractory status epilepticus who didn’t respond to benzodiazepines.
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          In a mouse model of Down syndrome, blocking a cellular pathway in brain cells improved learning and memory.
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          A rare form of skin cancer may sometimes start with cancer-causing mutations in hair follicle stem cells.
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