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The National Institutes of Health is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is responsible for health-related and biological research. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland and is comprised of 27 separate centers and institutes.

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: EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK: Brand New Day - - GovExec. com
January 01, 2012 | Tom Shoop

The key to overhauling the image of government may lie within agencies themselves.

: THINKING AHEAD: An Easy Pill to Swallow - - GovExec. com
January 01, 2012 | Caitlin Fairchild

David Hale takes a Silicon Valley approach to ramping up a computer reference guide for drug-related emergencies.

Database lists top federal earners in 2011 - - GovExec. com
December 22, 2011 | Kellie Lunney
The highest paid government employee this year is a doctor at the National Cancer Institute.

GOP senator's latest report on government waste pokes Congress - - GovExec. com
December 20, 2011 | Charles S. Clark
Coburn labels 100 federal expenditures totaling $6.5 billion as unnecessary, duplicative or low priority.

: FEATURES: Trust But Verify - - GovExec. com
December 01, 2011 | Aliya Sternstein
The Obama administration wants to partner with the e-commerce industry to make sure citizens are who they say they are online. But itâ€™s not clicking yet.

Articles from Nextgov

How IT Execs Stack Up Among Top Federal Earners - Wired Workplace
December 23, 2011 | Brittany Ballenstedt
Some IT managers are among the highest paid employees in the federal government, with a few making more than $200,000 per year, according to an analysis by WikiOrgCharts.com. The analysis found that the...

Trust but verify: Ensuring digital identities
December 14, 2011
The Obama administration wants to partner with the e-commerce industry to make sure citizens are who they say they are online. But it's not clicking yet.

The New TBI/PTSD Treatment Super Machine - Defense IT: What's Brewin'
September 26, 2011 | Bob Brewin
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center said it started using an advanced medical machine from Siemens approved by the Food and Drug Administration this June to diagnose and treat traumatic brain...

Top Secret Executive Coaching?
March 08, 2011 | Bob Brewin
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency says it needs some folks with rather rare Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearances for its formal agency-wide Leadership Coaching Program (LCP)....

Improving public health one app at a time
March 01, 2011
A new NIH program will use wireless devices to promote better medical care.

Web News

Causey: Who invests best in TSP?
September 02, 2011 | WFED / Home Page / Today's News

Cool jobs: Top chef NIH!
August 22, 2011 | WFED / Home Page / Today's News

NIH may have narrowed the CIO- SP3 field
July 19, 2011 | Federal Computer Week: News and Analysis

NIH could ban toxics under new law
July 08, 2011 | CNN

Nih On Wikipedia

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation. It consists of 27 separate institutes and offices which includes the Office of the Director. Francis S. Collins is the current Director. The predecessor of the NIH began in 1887 as the Laboratory of Hygiene. It grew and was reorganized in 1930 by the Ransdell Act into the National Institute of Health...

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Cancer Fear, The Movement To Redefine The Sickness
January 06, 2012 | KITV ABC 4 Honolulu HI

The U.S. Government Adopts New Limits on Chimp Research
December 16, 2011 | Newsy.com

Therapy dog helps CNY student
December 15, 2011 | WSYR ABC 9 Syracuse

New cholesterol screening guidelines
November 14, 2011 | WFTX FOX 4 Cape Coral, FL

Weighing in on diet failures
November 07, 2011 | KSNW NBC 3