Structured Summary
Abstract
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.
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- National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (U.S.)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (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 (U.S.)
- 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.)
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Synonyms
2 entry terms
- National Institutes of Health
- United States National Institutes of Health
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Aspects Covered
9 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
add UNITED STATES; 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; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
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History Note
1982(1966)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009316. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009316
- National Institutes of Health (U.S.). In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health
- National Institutes of Health (U.S.). In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q390551