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National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

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National Institutes of Health

United States National Institutes of Health

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.