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Enjoy the fireworks safely by wearing earplugs or protective earmuffs. NIH’s Noisy Planet shows you how.
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Managing Gestational Diabetes
Women with gestational diabetes can manage their blood glucose levels by following a healthy eating plan and being physically active.
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Yes, YOU can prevent heart disease!
About 1 in 16 women over age 20 has heart disease. It’s never too early to start protecting your heart.
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Get to know NIH and explore our Bethesda campus online.
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Many chronic cases are left untreated.
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Opioid Use Disorder
Many are unaware treatments for OUD can be prescribed in primary care.
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The NIH Director
Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D., is the NIH Director and provides leadership for the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up NIH.
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Funding for Research
NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality jobs.
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Labs at NIH
Scientists conduct research on NIH campuses across the U.S., as part of our Intramural Research Program.
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Impact of NIH Research
NIH-supported research has had a major positive impact on nearly all of our lives.
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Jobs at NIH
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.
Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx)
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.
COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
Guidelines from NIH for the diagnosis, treatment, and control of COVID-19.
Research information from NIH
NIH supports research in COVID-19 testing, treatments, and vaccines. También disponible en español.
NIH COVID-19 Safety Plan
Guidance to NIH staff, including employees, contractors, trainees, and volunteers, related to COVID-19.
Featured Resources & Initiatives
A new science agency proposed by President Joseph Biden as part of NIH to drive biomedical breakthroughs and provide transformative solutions for all patients.
Anti-Sexual Harassment
NIH does not tolerate pervasive or severe harassment of any kind, including sexual harassment.
Ending Structural Racism
Learn more about NIH’s efforts to end structural racism in biomedical research through the UNITE initiative.
All of Us Research Program
A research effort to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease.
NIH HEAL Initiative
Trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid crisis.
Clinical Trials
Learn about participating in clinical trials and where to find them.
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
A bold venture to help identify new treatments and cures for diseases.
Medical Research Initiatives
Important initiatives aimed at improving medical research.
Training at NIH
NIH provides training opportunities internally, as well as at universities and other institutions across the U.S.
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