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Gastroparesis is not common, but you are more likely to get it if you have diabetes.
Breastfeeding offers benefits to mothers and babies, including reduced risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Getting more physical activity, eating healthy, managing stress, and getting quality sleep can help to protect your heart.
This eye disease blurs sharp, central sight and is a leading cause of vision loss in older adults.
Dairy fatty acids not linked to death in older adults.
Notification of patient overdose deaths reduces clinician opioid prescriptions.
Overview of this common but serious mood disorder.
Induced labor at 39 weeks may reduce likelihood of C-section.
NIH is the nation’s medical research agency, supporting scientific studies that turn discovery into health.
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., 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 provides training opportunities internally, as well as at universities and other institutions across the U.S.
The central recruitment point of access to all NIH jobs and training opportunities
Providing NIH with critical tools to further advance biomedical research, promote innovation and speed development of new therapies.
Cancer prevention and detection, while making more therapies available to more patients.
Learn about an audacious initiative aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain.
Learn about participating in clinical trials and where to find them.
A research effort to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease.
Diabetes, obesity, cancer, asthma, and many other consumer health topics.
Trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid crisis.
Trans-agency initiative to investigate conditions affecting people with Down syndrome.
NIH-supported research has had a major positive impact on nearly all of our lives.
Learn about NIH’s workforce diversity programs and activities.
A bold venture to help identify new treatments and cures for diseases.
Important initiatives aimed at improving medical research.
