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  2. National Institutes of Health - Wikipedia

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    nih.gov. The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Many NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland ...

  3. National Center for Biotechnology Information - Wikipedia

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    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) [1][2] is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is approved and funded by the government of the United States. The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland, and was founded in 1988 through ...

  4. Biocontainment - Wikipedia

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    The term "biocontainment" is related to laboratory biosafety. [2][3] Merriam-Webster 's online dictionary reports the first use of the term in 1966, defined as "the containment of extremely pathogenic organisms (such as viruses) usually by isolation in secure facilities to prevent their accidental release especially during research".

  5. National Institutes of Health Police - Wikipedia

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    NIH Police are armed federal officers and have a variety of equipment to do their jobs. NIH Police wear a midnight navy shirt and outer armor carrier (Officers), white shirts and outer armor carrier (Sergeants and above), midnight navy patrol duty uniform pants, and black boots. K-9 officers wear blue BDU -style uniform and baseball cap.

  6. Adaptive equipment - Wikipedia

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    Adaptive equipment are devices that are used to assist bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and feeding are self-care activities that are including in the spectrum of activities of daily living (ADLs). Jennifer McLaughlin Maly a P.T./ D.P.T. in her article located in the journal Exceptional Parent gives a more complete definition of adaptive ...

  7. National Center for Research Resources - Wikipedia

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    The NIH is one of eight agencies under the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In 1990 the Division of Research Resources and the Division of Research Services were merged to form the National Center for Research Resources. Its mission statement declares that it "provides laboratory scientists and ...

  8. Medical device - Wikipedia

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    This article needs to be updated.The reason given is: the section related to E.U. needs further updates (esp. in sections 3.2 and 4.2.2) as the directives 93/42/EEC on medical devices and 90/385/EEC on active implantable medical devices have been fully repealed on 26 May 2021 by Regulation (EU) no. 2017/745 (MDR); furthermore, Brexit triggers updates in these sections (U.K. developed their own ...

  9. Center for Information Technology - Wikipedia

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    Center for Information Technology. The Center for Information Technology (CIT) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that compose the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a cabinet-level department of the Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government.