The NIH Clinical Center has created a new method for staff, patients and
visitors to report safety concerns to the NIH Clinical Center
leadership. In addition to the existing electronic Occurrence Reporting System (ORS)
that is available to all NIH staff, a toll-free ANONYMOUS telephone
hotline is open for staff, patients and visitors to report concerns.
In May, Dr. Andre Larochelle, an investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) presented by President Obama.
If you're a healthy person, you likely have John Cunningham (JC) virus
lying dormant in your body, harmless and causing no problems. But for
those people whose immune system is compromised and suppressed, JC
virus can cause a very rare, and often fatal, brain disease called
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML). In April, experts at
the NIH began a first-in-human trial
to attempt to treat PML in patients with non-readily reversible
immunosuppression. |