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Compound Restores Memory Function in Mouse Alzheimer’s Model
Researchers from Yale School of Medicine have discovered a promising new drug compound that reverses some Alzheimer’s effects on memory in mice. The work directly…
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Summer Fun at The Children’s Inn at NIH
From Camp INNcredible to Sibling Day, and everything in between, Children’s Inn residents have been busy with many fun and therapeutic programs this summer. Drawing…
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Impact in Action: Meet Inn Resident Julia Kain
Julia Kain of Ocala, Florida travels to The Children’s Inn for a week out of every month so that doctors can study and treat her…
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Only 17 Percent of Parents Believe Reading is Top Priority During the Summer
A new Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) survey found that only 17% of parents believe that reading is a top summertime priority. Despite heavy evidence that…
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New Report Details How Tobacco Companies Have Made Cigarettes More Addictive, More Attractive to Kids and More Deadly
The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids has released a report detailing how tobacco companies are not only making cigarettes more addictive, but they’re finding new…
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How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness
By Maia Szalavitz Child maltreatment has been called the tobacco industry of mental health. Much the way smoking directly causes or triggers predispositions for physical…
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Can Dementia be Prevented?
That’s a question the American Psychological Association posed when it brought in an expert panel to discuss the topic at a Senate briefing last week.…
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Reeve Foundation IRC member publishes New Study on Central Nervous System (CNS) Rehabilitation
A paper was published a couple of weeks ago from the Martin Schwab lab at the Brain Research Institute in Zurich. Schwab, as you know…
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The Inn Launches Partnership with NASA
Performing everyday tasks like shaving and brushing one’s teeth poses a number of challenges in zero gravity. At a recent visit from NASA Astronaut Mike…
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Family from Uganda finds respite at Children’s Inn
Recently a Ugandan family, with three teenagers affected by a seizure disorder called Nodding syndrome, stayed at The Children’s Inn. The disorder strikes at about…
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The Truth About Skin Cancer
Fifteen years ago, Heather Haux, a high school teacher in Long Island, New York, noticed what appeared to be a scrape on her arm. When…
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Yoga For a Cure to Breast Cancer
On February 13, 2014, Maggie DiNome, MD, Director of the newly developed High-Risk Clinic at the Cancer Prevention Clinic at the Margie Petersen Breast Center…
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