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• Doubling Accomplishments-Selected Examples (PDF - 108 KB)
• Research Into What Works Best (PDF - 200 KB)
• A Wealth of Health Resources Online (PDF - 216 KB)
• New Efforts for FY 2007 (PDF - 50 KB)
• Driving the Transformation to Predictive, Personalized and Preemptive Medicine (PDF - 58 KB)

Explore the following fact sheets to learn more about how NIH is pursuing its goal to make important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives.

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• Age-Related Macular Degeneration (PDF - 58 KB)
• Addiction and the Criminal Justice System (PDF - 324 KB)
• Alcohol Dependence (Alcoholism) (PDF - 53 KB)
• Alcohol, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (PDF - 128 KB)
• Alcohol-Related Traffic Deaths (PDF - 54 KB)
• Alcohol, Underage Drinking (PDF - 201 KB)
• Alzheimer’s Disease (PDF - 87 KB)
• Amblyopia (PDF - 50 KB)
• Antimicrobial Resistance (PDF - 184 KB)
• Rheumatoid Arthritis (PDF - 38 KB)
• Asthma (PDF - 131 KB)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (PDF - 68 KB)
• Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (PDF - 180 KB)

• Genes, Behavior, the Environment and Health (PDF - 93 KB)
• Better Living through Behavioral and Social Sciences (PDF - 108 KB)
• Breast Cancer (PDF - 112 KB)
• Burns and Traumatic Injury (PDF - 103 KB)

• Cancer (PDF - 80 KB)
• Cancer, Oral Cancer (PDF - 105 KB)
• Cancer, Prostate Cancer Genetics (PDF - 183 KB)
• Cervical Cancer (PDF - 181 KB)
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (PDF - 183 KB)
• Clinical Research at the NIH Clinical Center (PDF - 187 KB)
• Clinical Research Training at the NIH Clinical Center (PDF - 178 KB)
• Cochlear Implants (PDF - 55 KB)
• Colorectal Cancer (PDF - 182 KB)
• Specialized Community Interventions (PDF - 178 KB)
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine (PDF - 61 KB)
• Cystic Fibrosis (PDF - 50 KB)

• Dementia, Frontotemporal (Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration) (PDF - 51 KB)
• Type 1 Diabetes (PDF - 64.4 KB)
• Type 2 Diabetes (PDF - 70 KB)
• Diabetic Retinopathy (PDF - 54 KB)
• Diagnostics, Point-of-Care Diagnostic Testing (PDF - 126 KB)
• Disability in Older Adults (PDF - 57 KB)
• Drug Abuse and Addiction (PDF - 101 KB)
• Dystonia (PDF - 50 KB)

• End-of-Life (PDF - 66 KB)
• Genes, Behavior, the Environment and Health (PDF - 93 KB)
• Epilepsy (PDF - 85 KB)

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (PDF - 128 KB)
• Fibroids, Uterine (PDF - 144 KB)
• Frontotemporal Dementia (Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration) (PDF - 51 KB)

• From Genes to Personalized Medicines (PDF - 126 KB)
• Gene Toxicity and Cancer (PDF - 58 KB)
• Genes, Behavior, the Environment and Health (PDF - 93 KB)
• Genes: What We Knew, Know, and Hope to Learn (PDF - 185 KB)
• Genetic Testing: How it is Used for Healthcare (PDF - 68 KB)
• Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (PDF - 129 KB)
• Genetics of Common, Complex Disease (PDF - 180 KB)
• Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) Proposed Policy (PDF - 92 KB)
• Human Genome Project (PDF - 56 KB)
• Glaucoma (PDF - 178 KB)
• Global Health (PDF - 67 KB)
• Global Tobacco Research (PDF - 185 KB)

• Hair Cell Regeneration and Hearing Loss (PDF - 181 KB)
• Health Disparities (PDF - 71 KB)
• Newborn Hearing Screening (PDF - 124 KB)
• Hearing Aids (PDF - 181 KB)
• Heart Disease (PDF - 50 KB)
• Hepatitis B (PDF - 179 KB)
• Heroin Addiction (PDF - 79 KB)
• HIV/AIDS (PDF - 133 KB)
• Human Genome Project (PDF - 56 KB)
• Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) (PDF - 57 KB)

• Image-Guided Interventions (PDF - 74 KB)
• Imaging Diseases of Addiction (PDF - 538 KB)
• International Epidemiology & Population Studies (PDF - 179 KB)
• International Research Governance (PDF - 98 KB)
• Infant Health (PDF - 122 KB)

• Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Failure (PDF - 114 KB)
• Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (PDF - 180 KB)

• Lupus (PDF - 55 KB)

• Macular Degeneration (PDF - 58 KB) (Age-Related)
• Mental Retardation (PDF - 140 KB)
• Mood Disorders (PDF - 53 KB)
• Multiple Sclerosis (PDF - 88 KB)

• National Library of Medicine (PDF - 90 KB)
• Neurological Imaging (PDF - 839 KB)
• Newborn Hearing Screening (PDF - 124 KB)

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder PDF - 100 KB)
• Optical Imaging (PDF - 100 KB)
• Oral Cancer (PDF - 176 KB)
• Osteoarthritis (PDF - 197 KB)
• Osteoporosis (PDF - 53 KB)

• Pain Management (PDF - 177 KB)
• Parkinson's Disease (PDF - 100 KB)
• Periodontal Diseases (PDF - 51 KB)
• Point-of-Care Diagnostic Testing (PDF - 126 KB)
• Population, International Epidemiology & Population Studies (PDF - 179 KB)
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (PDF - 462 KB)
• Progeria (PDF - 51 KB)
• Prostate Cancer (PDF - 182 KB)
• Prostate Cancer Genetics (PDF - 183 KB)
• Psoriasis (PDF - 341 KB)

• Reading Difficulty and Disability (PDF - 184 KB)
• Regenerative Medicine (PDF - 102 KB)
• Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (PDF - 57 KB)
• Rheumatoid Arthritis (PDF - 38 KB)

• Salivary Diagnostics (PDF - 192 KB)
• Schizophrenia (PDF - 48 KB)
• Scleroderma (PDF - 67 KB)
• Self-management (PDF - 150 KB)
• Sickle Cell Disease (PDF - 54 KB)
• Strides in Sorting Out the Cell (PDF - 117 KB)
• Stroke (PDF - 173 KB)

• Tobacco Addiction (PDF - 105 KB)
• Tobacco, Global Research (PDF - 185 KB)
• Tooth Decay (PDF - 49 KB)
• Transfusion Safety (PDF - 180 KB)
• Tuberculosis (PDF - 183 KB)

• Underage Drinking (PDF - 201 KB)
• Uterine Fibroids (PDF - 144 KB)

• NIH: A Vision for the Future (PDF - 1.93 MB), March 6, 2007
• NIH at the Crossroads: Strategies for the Future (PDF - 6.01 MB)
• Testimony

• Presentation to the Society for Neuroscience (PDF - 3.24 MB), October 17, 2006

• The National Institutes of Health (NIH): Organization, Funding, and Congressional Issues (PDF - 205 KB), October 19, 2006

• Extramural Snapshots: Geographic Distribution (PDF - 109 KB)
• Success Rates, Percentiles, Paylines . . .and your chances of being funded (PDF - 61 KB)

More Fact Sheets to come...

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