| Resource Name & Link to Resource: | National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Description: | Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helps lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and cures for common and rare diseases. Composed of 27 institutes and centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the world. |
| Resource Type(s): | Selected Academic Website |
| Access information: | Free resource - available to everyone on the Internet |
| Fulltext: | Fulltext is available. |
| Research Guides: | Family and Consumer Sciences, Human Environmental Sciences |
