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National Institute Arthritis, Musculoskeletal
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. As its somewhat cumbersome name indicates, NIAMSÆs mission is a broad and important one, namely to ôconduct and sumore detail info...
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): This is one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. In formal terms, the mission of the NIAID is ôto support and conduct research and research training (that) strives to umore detail info...
National Institute of Child Health and Human Devel
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NICHD is essentially the NIH for kids. The mission of the NICHD is, in formal terms, to support and conduct ôresearch on fertmore detail info...
National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR)
National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDR is the NIH for dental and other craniofacial diseases. NIDRÆs mission is, in formal terms, to ôprovide leadership for a national researmore detail info...
National Institute of Diabetes &Digestive &Kidney
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name and a comparably broad mission, namely, to öconduct and support basic and applied rmore detail info...
National Institute of Environmental Health Science
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NIEHSÆs mission is to ôreduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by defining how environmentalmore detail info...
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NIMHÆs mission is to ôprovide national leadership dedicated to understanding, treating, and preventing mental illnesses through basic research on tmore detail info...
National Institute of NeurologicalDisorders&Stroke
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NINDSÆs mission is to ôsupport and conduct research and research training on the normal structure and function of the nervmore detail info...
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR): One of the National Institutes of Health, NINRÆs mission is to ôsponsor research that focuses on the clinical care of individuals and on their responses to actual or potential health problems. Throumore detail info...
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
National Institute on Aging (NIA): One of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. The mission of NIA is to ôlead a national program of research on the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging process; the prevention ofmore detail info...
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): One of the National Institutes of Health,. NIAAAÆs mission is to ôconduct research focused on improving the treatment and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems to reducemore detail info...
National Institute on Deafness & Other Commun.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NIDCDÆs mission is to öconduct and support biomedical research and research training on normal mechanisms as well as dimore detail info...
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): One of the National Institutes ofHealth in the U.S., NIDAÆs mission is to ôlead the nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction through support and conduct of research acrosmore detail info...
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC): The clinical research facility of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. As a national resource, the CCÆs mission is to ôprovide the patient care, services, and environment neededmore detail info...
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Library of Medicine (NLM): Part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NLMÆs mission is to ôcollect, organize, and make available biomedical science information to investigators, educators, and practitioners and carry out programsmore detail info...
Nat'l Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NIGMSÆs mission is to ôsupport basic biomedical research that is not targeted to specific diseases or disorders. Among the most signifimore detail info...
Naturopath
Naturopath: A person who practices naturopathy, a drugless system of therapy based on the use of physical forces such as heat, water, light, air and massage.more detail info...
Nausea
Nausea: Nausea is the urge to vomit. It can be brought by many causes including, systemic illnesses, such as influenza, medications, pain, and inner ear disease.more detail info...
Navel
Navel: The umbilicus. The word navel came from the Anglo-Saxon nafe for the hub of a wheel.more detail info...
NCI (National Cancer Institute)
NCI (National Cancer Institute): The National Cancer Institute is one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. The mission of the NCI is to ôlead a national effort to reduce the burden of cancer morbidity and mortality and ultimatemore detail info...