National Institutes of Health (NIH)
<http://www.nih.gov>

Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of the world’s foremost medical research centers. An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the federal focal point for health research. There are fact sheets and information available on public health issues that will be of use to health educators.