Scientists are conducting research as part of a quest to develop the first objective way to measure pain.

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The following Maryland companies were awarded government-wide acquisition contracts in information technology, each with a maximum value of $20 billion, by the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center:

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Baltimore’s emocha Mobile Health won a Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Institutes of Health to study its medication adherence platform for patients with tuberculosis, the company announced. The award gives emocha $1 million for a multi-state study ...

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Advanced BioScience Laboratories Inc., a biomedical contract research and manufacturing company in Rockville, will continue its work on developing an HIV vaccine for the National Institutes of Health after  winning a contract re-competition The new contract with NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and ...

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Maryland-based companies and organizations of all sizes are contributing to the national initiative to end cancer. More than 70 commitments to new actions, such as funding additional research, making new ways of sharing data and increasing outreach efforts in communities, ...

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The National Institutes of Health next month will end its parking services contract with a Maryland firm, citing “several different protests” lodged after the firm was awarded the contract last year. As a result of the contract loss, Penn Parking ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $755 million for cancer research in his upcoming budget, the White House said Monday, bringing the total price tag for Vice President Joe Biden’s cancer “moonshot” to $1 billion. Research into ...

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BETHESDA — Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Kensington, warned Tuesday that a government shutdown is likely to repeat the disruption in patient care and research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that occurred two years ago. “We’ve got to avoid ...

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A parking company with more than 220 locations in Washington, Maryland and Virginia will lay off 60 people in Maryland, the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation announced on Monday. Washington-based Colonial Parking plans to lay off as many ...

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WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health is suspending its production of experimental medicines for certain research studies after the discovery of two vials contaminated with fungus. The NIH says six patients who received different doses made from the original ...

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