What is the role of Progesterone therapy? This question has been in the realm of the medical world for decades but with the eminent group of researchers financed by the National Institutes of Health coming out with a definite answer resulting from an array of investigative study an innovative dimension is being perceived. It has been stated that the Progesterone therapy does not have the potential of reducing the likelihood of preterm birth in women pregnant with twins.   

However it is to be noted in the same esteem that a similar study was conducted in the earlier days that exhibited progesterone therapy diminishing the risk for preterm birth in another category of high-risk pregnant women. Among them those carrying a single baby who had delivered a single baby prematurely in the past were particularly specified.

The National Human Genome Research Institute or NHGRI, a distinguished constituent of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today has come out with a major announcement of awarding amounting to more than $15 million in grants for advocating the development of new technologies that have the prospective of reducing the cost of DNA sequencing. In this regard the highest echelon of the organization has also stated that the entire process is a part of the premeditated intention of the mergence of a rosy future when the genome of each person shall be sequenced a regular ingredient of medical research and health care.

The researchers at the Forsyth Institute (Boston, Mass.), while using the flatworm planaria in the investigative study have come out with an imperative apparatus regarding the controlling of the activities of adult stem cells, in particular with the introduction of a new role for the proteins that get involved in cell-to-cell communication. In addition, it has also been anticipated that the new discovery in turn has the potential to help the scientists in ascertaining the nature of the messages that remain in charge of the stem cell regulation that includes the message that sustains and proffers a stem cell to specialize and also to become a part of the liver or skin. However, it is to be noted that in the recent years the planarians have been recognized as expected as a great system of replica to molecularly slice up conserved stem cell regulatory mechanisms in vivo. It is due to the aspect that the planarians have influential ability of renewal making them ideal for the effective examination of this procedure.

The Health Resources and Services Administration or HRSA, as has been confirmed, has awarded 15 grants that amounts to more than $5.6 million to an assortment of hospitals and other health care entities with the sole intention of assisting the coal miners affected with black lung disease and thus to save them from the impending danger.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), one of the renowned constituents of the National Institutes of Health announced here today of its decision to change the name of its scientific journal Perspectives to the Journal of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, from the very November issue. In accordance with the proclamation it has also been learnt that the new title has been designed for the betterment of the reflection of the journal's commitment for a better exposure of the exchange of ideas between an array of researchers, clinicians, and others in the field of addiction science. It ha also been affirmed, that henceforth the NIDA will be augmenting the number of issues per year from once to twice a year, so as to provide accommodation for the growing necessity of the inclusion scientific literature more that are being produced in the expanding field of drug abuse and addiction research.