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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BioHealth Innovation Inc. — a Rockville-based group that is a go-between for research institutions and the private sector — is expanding a partnership with the NIH that aims to make it easier to commercialize research done there.

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The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda has partnered with Vtesse Inc., a Gaithersburg-based biotechnology company, to develop treatments for an often-fatal group of disorders known as lysosomal storage diseases.

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If you’re a Maryland undergrad looking to beef up your resume, the National Institutes of Health has a proposition for you.

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The first nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital is free of the virus and is being released, the National Institutes of Health said Friday.

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