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Diabetes and high blood pressure are the most common causes of kidney disease. Learn how to control your risk.
Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders causing abnormal hemoglobin.
Information about this mood disorder that can affect women after childbirth.
Life-saving post-ER suicide prevention strategies found effective.
Study compares 2-D and 3-D mammography for finding breast cancers.
Federal resources for those affected by hurricanes.
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.
NIH to launch public-private research initiative to address pain and opioid abuse.
Learn about new research to understand environmental influences on child health.
NIH-supported research has had a major positive impact on nearly all of our lives.
Learn about the “Enhancing the Diversity of the NIH-funded Workforce” program.
A bold venture to help identify new treatments and cures for diseases.
Important initiatives aimed at improving medical research.
