NIEHS
Stands for National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., whose mission is to “reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by defining how environmental exposures, genetic susceptibility, and age interact to affect an individual’s health.”
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- Night sweats
Severe hot flashes that occur at night and result in a drenching sweat. Night sweats can have many different causes, including medications, infections, and cancers.
- NIGMS
Stands for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., whose mission is to “support basic biomedical research that is not targeted to specific diseases or disorders. Among the most significant results of this research has been the development of recombinant DNA technology, which forms the […]
- NIH
National Institutes of Health.