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National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

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Definition: An operating division of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It is concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to health and medical research. Until 1995, it was an agency of the United States PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.  add UNITED STATES (NIM); CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES, NIH AS TOPIC is available: see note there; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL or RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., INTRAMURAL; CATALOG: use NAF entry   
Examples National Cancer Institute (U.S.); National Eye Institute (U.S.); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.); National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.); National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (U.S.); National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (U.S.); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.); National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (U.S.); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S.); National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (U.S.); National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.); National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.); National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; National Institute of Nursing Research (U.S.); National Institute on Aging (U.S.); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.); National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (U.S.); National Institute on Drug Abuse (U.S.); National Library of Medicine (U.S.) 		Other names United States National Institutes of Health; National Institutes of Health

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