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Sign up for PregSource™, a research project about pregnancy.
January 22–28: Teens learn facts about drug use from scientific experts.
Old habits die hard. But understanding the stages of change can help you adopt healthy habits that stick.
Learn about symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
How it spreads, symptoms and treatment.
Genetic variations in the anatomy of lungs could help identify people at risk.
Using DNA in blood to detect, track, and treat cancer.
Study finds opioid treatment drugs have similar outcomes.
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.
