NICHHD

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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

(NICHD)

an institute of the national institutes of health; it conducts research on fertility, pregnancy, growth, development, and medical rehabilitation, striving to ensure that every child is born healthy and wanted and grows up free from disease and disability.

NICHHD

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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Phase II clinical trials are being coordinated by NICHHD and the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Delivering the goods; designing a new drug is one thing; getting it to the disease is another

Parer found "not a good correlation" between his five-tier system and the NICHHD three-tier system, he said.

Three tiers of fetal heart rates: not enough?

The most common federal funding sources among the published family medicine studies were the Public Health Service (18.9%) and the Department of Health and Human Services (18.9%); for general internal medicine research, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research or its forerunner, the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment (16.7%); in obstetrics and gynecology, the National Institutes of Health (46.1%); and in pediatrics, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) (25.5%).

The NICHHD primary programs are "reproduction and population studies, perinatal biology and infant mortality, congenital defects, developmental biology and nutrition, human learning and behavior, and mental [retardation,".sup.36(p 60)] and do not therefore favor pediatrics over obstetrics and gynecology or family medicine.

Primary care research funding sources

Scientists at NICHHD collaborated with others in Nepal, Sweden and France during a pilot study and a subsequent clinical trial of the NICHHD-developed vaccine.

Typhoid vaccine declared a success

One commonly examined strategy is repeated reading of passages (e.g., LeVasseur, Macaruso, & Shankweiler, 2008; Martens et al., 2007; Mercer, Campbell, Miller, Mercer, & Lane, 2000; NICHHD, 2000; Vandenberg, Boon, Fore, & Bender, 2008).

Results of most recent reviews or syntheses have suggested that repeated reading improves reading fluency with moderate to large effect sizes on nontransfer passages for students with and without disabilities (Chard, Vaughn, & Tyler, 2002; Meyer & Felton, 1999; Morgan & Sideridis, 2006; NICHHD, 2000; Therrien, 2004; Therrien, Wickstrom, & Jones, 2006; Wexler, Vaughn, Edmonds, & Reutebuch, 2008), but resulted in less robust effects on transfer passages (Ardoin, Eckert, & Cole, 2008; Therrien).

Using a repeated reading program to improve generalization of oral reading fluency

This was in support of National Research Council (NRC, 1998) and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD 2000) that also recommended such approach to reading instruction for students.

From isolation to combination: a multilevel, multicomponent approach to developing literacy skills of students with cognitive impairment

In any case, both ACOG and nursing organizations have adopted the NICHHD guidelines.

Fetal monitoring update: Part 3

Student progress was measured, using the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) reading assessment (Good & Kaminski, 2003), which was designed to assess the five major skill areas in early reading identified by the National Reading Panel (NICHHD, 2000) and the National Research Panel (Snow et al., 1998) including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

The efficacy of a supplemental multisensory reading program for first-grade students

Read, who is a medical officer in the Pediatric, Adolescent, and Maternal AIDS Branch of the NICHHD, and her associates looked at the potential costs and outcomes of this strategy in the United States.