Analysis Of National Institutes Of Health (NIH)

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National Institutes of Health (NIH), operating division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a part of the Public Health Service. The NIH traces its origins back to the establishment of the Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887. It supports and conducts biomedical research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases and uses a modern communications system to furnish biomedical information to the health professions. The NIH also supports grants and contracts for fellowships, training, construction of health research facilities and community health centers, and student loans and scholarships. At the beginning of 2004, the NIH included more than two dozen institutes and centers, many of them based in Bethesda, Md.

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