National Institutes of Health


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Noun1.National Institutes of Health - an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human healthNational Institutes of Health - an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, HHS - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979
bureau, federal agency, government agency, agency, office, authority - an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
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Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Roberto Pezza received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study cellular mechanisms that regulate DNA metabolism, particularly how damaged DNA is repaired.
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The National Institutes of Health says it has added genetic data linked to medical information on a diverse group of more than 78,000 people, enabling investigations into many diseases and conditions.
New York (AirGuideBusiness - Business & Industry News) Mon, Feb 3, 2014 The omnibus appropriations bill doesn't provide the funding for the National Institutes of Health that researchers hoped to see and the NIH says it's getting $950 million less than in 2012.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Milken Institute/FasterCures host A Celebration of Science with panels about the NIH impact on health and the economy and short talks by national leaders in government, industry, university research, and patients.
In March, the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) released a redesigned version of NIHSeniorHealth, the National Institutes of Health consumer health Web site for older adults.
Fewer children are dying of AIDS, thanks to the intensive antiretroviral treatments that have been prescribed since the 1990s, according to the National Institutes of Health. The death rate of children with HIV has been reduced ninefold, although mortality among children with HIV is still 30 times higher than among their non-infected peers.
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $190,894 grant to the Department of Biological Sciences and Geology at Queensborough Community College in New York to create training workshops that will help prepare science students for careers as biomedical researchers.
(East Setauket, NY) announced that the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Lixte filed a joint patent application identifying a biomarker, present in many common cancers, that is a target of drugs being evaluated by Lixte and NINDS for the treatment of brain tumors.
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