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NIH Clinical Center south entrance
Clinical Center – Building 10

The National Institutes of Health is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is their agency for research. There are 27 separate institutes and offices. Each of them are for separate areas of health which they research. Most of them are in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIH made vaccines against hepatitis, Haemophilus influenzae (HIB) and human papillomavirus.

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  • Ida Bengston

    Ida A. Bengtson, a bacteriologist who in 1916 was the first woman hired to work in the Hygienic Laboratory

  • NIH buildings 1-7

    NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1945

  • SEClinicalResearchCenterNIH -0114

    Clinical Research Center at NIH

  • MainLobbyWallClinicalResearchCenterNIH

    Main Lobby Wall at the Clinical Research Center at NIH

  • Looking at the Main Lobby at the Clinical Research Center at NIH -0091

    Looking at the Main Lobby at the Clinical Research Center at NIH

  • LobbyClinicalResearchCenterNIH

    Looking at the Main Lobby at the Clinical Research Center at NIH

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