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Essay On National Institutes Of Health

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defined its self as” a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives”. NIH includes 27 institutes and centers which have a specific research agenda for each of them. It splits into two parts: one taking charge of supporting the biomedical and behavioral research outside of NIH, and the other is the Clinical Center; the largest hospital in the world; make clinical researches which are performed in many aspects: diagnosis, causes, therapy, and diseases prevention and the utilization of modern communication system to providing biomedical information to the medical community. …show more content…

IN 1880s congress assigned MHS to provide health care for passengers who come on ships by examining them against infected deceases. In particular: cholera and yellow fever, to prevent epidemics. Then in 1887 one room in MHS was assigned as a laboratory which was named Laboratory of Hygiene by physician Kinyoun, and its goal is to improve the public health. In 1892, the laboratory of Hygiene relocated to Washington D.C. which is formally begone a new research program. Moreover, the government pointed scientists with Ph.D. In 1930, the congress changed the name of the Laboratory of Hygiene to became the National Institutes of Health who entitled to do research fellowships in biological and medical fields. After seven years, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) was established, later, in 1944, NCI was assigned as an element of NIH. By the time, the number of institutions gradually increase until it reached 20 institutes, 7 centers, and the office of the director in 2008.
National Institution of Health’s Institutions and centers: The 27 institutes which included in NIH expend more than 28$ billion dollar yearly in research: National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Eye Institute (NEI), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),

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