NIH Research Matters—Pay incentives for clinician performance, vaccine clears monkey AIDS virus, and how testosterone affects men

This week in NIH Research Matters:   Patient Outcomes Improved by Pay-For-Performance Pay incentives for clinician performance can improve cardiovascular care in small primary care clinics that use electronic health records, a new study reports.   Vaccine Clears Away Monkey AIDS Virus An experimental vaccine given to monkeys triggered an immune attack that wiped out all traces of an AIDS-causing virus after a year or more.   Understanding How Testosterone Affects Men The complex effects of testosterone depend partly on its conversion in the body to a type of estrogen, investigators found.       Editor's Picks from past issues: Video Game Training Improves Cognitive Control in Older Adults Gut Microbes and Diet Interact to Affect Obesity Program Improves Blood Pressure Control Blood Markers May Signal Suicide Risk Bacteria Trigger Nerve Cells to Cause Pain NIH Research Matters is on Facebook! Join us at www.facebook.com/ResearchMatters, and write on our wall. NIH Research Matters is also available as an RSS News Feed. Point your RSS reader to http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/feed.xml (to learn more about RSS, visit http://www.nih.gov/news/rss.htm).   Update Your E-mail Address | Add Subscriptions | Unsubscribe If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact support@govdelivery.com. For all other inquiries about NIH programs and activities, please contact NIHinfo@od.nih.gov. Before writing, please view our Frequently Asked Questions page, our A-Z Health Topics page, or Search our website. This service is provided to you by the National Institutes of Health. NIH…Turning Discovery Into Health® This email was sent to buzzhairs@gmail.com using GovDelivery, on behalf of: National Institutes of Health (NIH) · 9000 Rockville Pike · Bethesda MD 20892 · 301-496-4000 / TTY 301-402-9612