Fact Sheets

Stroke Prevention and Treatment: Advances in NIH-funded Research

A Better Quality of Life for Stroke Victims (PDF, 2 pages)

Speed Is Essential When Treating Stroke (PDF, 2 pages)

The Collaboration Between the NIH and Academic Medicine

The Nation's Medical Research Team (PDF, 2 pages)
A 60-year collaboration between the NIH and academic medicine has funded many of the most important medical advances of our times.

Teaming Up to Improve Health (PDF, 3 pages)
The ongoing collaboration between the NIH and academic researchers has yielded important health advances and "firsts" that are improving health and saving lives.

Medical Research: Saving Lives Through New Cures and Treatments (PDF, 3 pages)
Medical research takes different forms, each of them a building block toward developing new treatments and cures.

Working Together to Transform Medical Research (PDF, 2 pages)
Today's research involves not just expertly trained scientists and technological innovations, but new ways of working together and sharing research to speed the pace of discovery.

Medical Firsts: Advances Pioneered at Americas Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals (PDF, 2 pages)
Neonatal intensive care units for newborns, MRI technology, and organ transplants—all brought to you by the teamwork of the NIH and academic medicine.

Bone Health

Osteoarthritis: A Debilitating and Progressive Disease (PDF, 3 pages)

The Growing Importance of Bone Health (PDF, 3 pages)

The Disease of Addiction

Drug Use and Abuse: Fighting the Destructive Grip of Addiction (PDF, 3 pages)
The NIH supports research at the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals to better understand the disease of addiction and develop more targeted strategies for its prevention and treatment.

The Disease of Addiction (PDF, 3 pages)
U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals, together with the NIH, are researching new treatment approaches to address addiction problems.

Advancing Women's Heart Health

Heart Disease in Women: Getting the Attention it Deserves (PDF, 3 pages)
About 3 million American women have had a heart attack. One in three women will die of heart disease. NIH-supported research conducted at U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals seeks to reduce these numbers.

Heart Disease: A Special Challenge for Women (PDF, 3 pages)
NIH and academic medicine are working to reduce the number of heart disease-related deaths in women by identifying unique risk factors and developing more effective diagnosis and treatment methods.

Managing Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases — Making Progress on a Perpetual Challenge (PDF, 3 pages)
The NIH supports research at the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals to combat HIV/AIDS, influenza (including avian flu), malaria, TB, SARS, viruses (including West Nile virus), and potential bioterror agents.

Confronting Infectious Diseases: America's Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals (PDF, 3 pages)
For decades, the NIH and America's medical schools and teaching hospitals have worked together to stop the spread of infectious diseases through new knowledge, better treatments, and life-saving vaccines.

Combating Alzheimer's and Other Diseases Affecting the Elderly

Making Inroads into Alzheimer's Disease (PDF, 3 pages)
The tide is turning on this increasingly prevalent disease, because of research supported by the NIH at U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals.

Understanding Aging, Combating Disease, Improving Life (PDF, 4 pages)
NIH-funded research has resulted in important advances in understanding the normal process of aging and in better diagnoses, treatment, and even prevention strategies for many diseases affecting the elderly.

Using the Human Genome to Understand and Treat Cancer

Advancing the Fight Against Cancer (PDF, 5 pages)
A united front of academic medicine and the NIH has resulted over the years in millions more Americans surviving cancer.

Cancer Genomics Promises to Revolutionize Patient Care (PDF, 3 pages)
Genomics research has led to better and earlier cancer detection, not to mention more targeted and effective treatments.

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