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Do You Know Your Numbers?
Get your blood cholesterol checked — it’s National Cholesterol Education Month.
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Pain Awareness
Learn how the NIH Pain Consortium supports initiatives, highlights advances in pain research, and coordinates NIH pain research activities.
Learn About Pain Awareness Month
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Ebola Research
Get the facts about Ebola virus and learn about NIH research into prevention, treatment, and detection.
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Genomic Data Sharing
NIH issues its final policy on genomic data sharing to speed biomedical discoveries.
Learn About Genomic Data Sharing
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BRAIN 2025
NIH approves scientific vision for the BRAIN Initiative.
Learn More about the BRAIN 2025 Report
In the News
Posted on Aug 25, 2014
NIH is the nation’s medical research agency—supporting scientific studies that turn discovery into health.
NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality jobs.
About 6000 scientists conduct basic & clinical research on NIH campuses across the country, as part of our Intramural Research Program.
NIH provides training opportunities internally, as well as at universities and other institutions across the country.
The NIH Director
Dr. Francis S. Collins,
NIH Director
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