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High blood pressure is a risk factor for heart disease. Knowing your numbers is the first step to controlling it.
Think before you drink.
Learn ways to make healthy lifestyle choices to prevent health problems.
Find new information on NIAMS’ revamped Bone Health and Osteoporosis page.
Approach provides more help to infants born dependent on opioids.
Adults report high rates of persistent pain.
Study finds disparities carry huge economic burden.
Vigorous exercise not tied to increase risk.
NIH is the nation’s medical research agency, supporting scientific studies that turn discovery into health.
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., is the Acting NIH Director and provides leadership for the 27 institutes and centers that make up the NIH.
NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality jobs.
Scientists conduct research on NIH campuses across the U.S., as part of our Intramural Research Program.
NIH-supported research has had a major positive impact on nearly all of our lives.
The central recruitment point of access to all NIH jobs and training opportunities
A public-private partnership to develop a coordinated research strategy to speed the most promising COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
An initiative to speed innovation in the development, commercialization, and implementation of technologies for COVID-19 testing.
A new research initiative to understand, prevent, and treat the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Guidelines from NIH for the diagnosis, treatment, and control of COVID-19.
NIH supports research in COVID-19 testing, treatments, and vaccines. También disponible en español.
Guidance to NIH staff, including employees, contractors, trainees, and volunteers, related to COVID-19.
A new science agency proposed by President Joseph Biden as part of NIH to drive biomedical breakthroughs and provide transformative solutions for all patients.
NIH does not tolerate pervasive or severe harassment of any kind, including sexual harassment.
Learn more about NIH’s efforts to end structural racism in biomedical research through the UNITE initiative.
A research effort to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease.
Trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid crisis.
Learn about participating in clinical trials and where to find them.
A bold venture to help identify new treatments and cures for diseases.
Important initiatives aimed at improving medical research.
NIH provides training opportunities internally, as well as at universities and other institutions across the U.S.
