Clinical Center News
July / August 2024
David Lunter talking to a family member

A Roadmap to Improve Communication in the ICU

This is the third installment of Marcy Mager’s observations about the processes and procedures used in the NIH Clinical Center to provide care to patients who are severely ill. Full Story

CCE Modular Terrace

Center for Cellular Engineering Unveils New Manufacturing Facility

The Center for Cellular Engineering (CCE) will soon unveil its new, roughly $20 million Modular Terrace Facility. Full Story

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Diane Dowling, Dr. Harvey Alter, Dr. James Gilman, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and Dr. Lawrence Tabak

Clinical Center Honors Its Own Nobel Laureate

The Clinical Center recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the NIH History Center and Stetten Museum exhibit on Dr. Harvey Alter. Full Story

Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and Dr. Stephanie Goff

NIH Director Scrubs In at the Clinical Center

NIH Director, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and NCI, Dr. Stephanie Goff operated on a woman with metastatic melanoma to remove a tumor from her thigh muscle, which is part of a clinical trial's protocol to test the effect of using combo immunotherapy drugs in a patient with metastatic melanoma. Full Story

Elyas Khandwalla

How the NIH Clinical Center Cured Elyas Khandwalla

Participating in a clinical trial, a seventh-grader received a life-saving bone marrow transplant, shedding light on a promising new preoperative conditioning treatment. Full Story

Mysteries of sleep explored with combined MRI, EEG information
Understanding sleep is no snore to researchers at NIH's National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) who are studying an intriguing question in sleep science – what changes can we...
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Scanner control room
Sex and Gender in Clinical Research: Breaking Through Barriers, Advancing Equality in Outcomes
Biological gender differences in men and women matter – but historically, women have not received the appropriate study and resulting treatment that underlies this belief.
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Dr. Alyson McGregor
Traumatic brain injury can now be diagnosed by a blood test
Two studies conducted by the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center, demonstrated that a blood test of neurofilament light chain can accurately identify all stages...
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Neurofilament Light Chain on the Neuron
Halloween celebrations continue during pandemic for hospitals youngest patients
The NIH Clinical Centers youngest patients celebrated Halloween despite infection control requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Members of the NIH Clinical Center Recreational Therapy program dressed in Halloween costumes
Annual NIH Gingerbread House Decorating Contest delights viewers at the hospital, online
The 16th annual NIH Gingerbread House Decorating contest had another record year with 90 entries.
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NIH Social Media team livestreams the winners on Twitter
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Expert Presents Doppman Lecture
The NIH Clinical Center Radiology and Imaging Sciences Department hosted the 19th annual John Doppman Lecture for Imaging Sciences Oct. 16.
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Dr. Curtis Longlotz speaks at a podium
Cochlear surgery at Clinical Center provides hearing to pediatric patient
Fall 2018 marked two milestones for Building 10 – the first time two cochlear (bilateral) implants were placed and the first time the surgery was performed for a pediatric patient, allowing them to hear once again.
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Graphic of a cochlear implant
NIH Clinical Center celebrates National Nurses Week and all those who serve our patients and the research mission in Building 10
Nurses working the late shift enjoy breakfast served by their department's leadership as a part of Nurses Week at the NIH Clinical Center, May 6-12, 2019.
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Three women photographed with an award
From jazz to a capella, music in the atrium filled the air
The series "Music in the Atrium" brought some fine performances to the Clinical Center over the Spring and Summer months in 2019.
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Singer-songwriter and pianist Chris Urquiaga
Patient celebrates 50th anniversary of open heart surgery at Building 10
Former Clinical Center patient Tom Kaminski (center) returned "home" to the NIH in June in celebration of his successful open heart surgery five decades ago in Building 10.
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Tom Kaminski with Dr. Sherman Souther
Lost in the laundry: a patient's stuffed animal lamb goes missing in action
Pants? Check. Shirts? Check. Stuffed animal Lamb? Check.
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Kayden Reinke, at the age of 2, holding Lammie
Patient proposal pays tribute to the place that gave her a 'second chance at life'
On May 9, after completing her outpatient appointment, patient Marissa Amuso walked out to the common area in Building 10 to find her boyfriend Branden Bolivar on one knee asking for her hand...
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Branden Bolivar proposes to Marissa Amuso, a patient, May 9 at the NIH Clinical Center

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