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Washington, DC - The National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has added four new Centers of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CERCs) to its research centers program.

Washington, DC - Management of hepatitis B is a challenge for physicians and patients due to an incomplete understanding of the disease course, complex treatment indications, and the lack of large studies focusing on important health outcomes. To examine these issues, the NIH convened an independent, impartial panel this week to weigh the available evidence on the management of hepatitis B.

San Diego, California - Surgeons at UC San Diego Medical Center have reported what is believed to be the world’s first hernia repair conducted through one of the body’s natural openings. As part of a clinical trial, minimally invasive surgeons Garth Jacobsen, M.D., and Santiago Horgan, M.D., were able to repair a painful weak spot in a patient’s abdominal wall using the vagina as the path to the surgical site.

Tempe, Arizona - The road of recovery from a stroke is long, arduous and full of challenges for many people. In the U.S. alone, some 590,000 people annually survive a stroke and already there are 4.8 million stroke survivors in this country.

Sacramento, California - Lead poisoning is a serious health concern that is often referred to as the "silent epidemic." This is because it all too often goes undetected, as it tends to have little to no early visible signs or symptoms.  Its effects are especially harmful to the health of our children, and can lead to many serious problems, including delayed growth, learning disabilities, cognitive and behavior disorders and in the most severe cases, death.