Featured Studies

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center seeks volunteers with type 1 or type 2 diabetes to join a research study. If your diabetes has affected your eyes, kidneys, or other organs you may be interested in participating. Researchers want to learn how the body controls vitamin C levels in those with diabetes.

Diets worldwide include both processed and unprocessed foods. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland seek adult volunteers between 18-60 years old to participate in a study examining how processed and unprocessed foods affect metabolic health. Participants will be required to remain at the NIH Clinical Center for one 4-week stay and eat only the foods provided.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seek healthy volunteers to provide blood samples for research studies of blood vessels and immune diseases that cause clotting. In this study, investigators want to understand the basis of these diseases to facilitate the development of better treatments.

Each year, the number of cases of tick-borne diseases increases. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Lyme Disease Studies Unit is looking for healthy volunteers to participate in a research study to learn more about how the human immune system responds to tick bites.

The National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is recruiting heavy drinkers for a study to evaluate the safety of an investigational drug to treat signs and symptoms of alcohol associated liver damage. If you drink more than 20 alcoholic beverages per week, you may have this type of liver damage.

Research study #00-N-0082 aims to develop improved MRI techniques for studying brain function. Information obtained will be used to develop better imaging methods that will, in turn, permit a greater understanding of normal and abnormal brain behaviors.

Researchers are examining genetic and physical characteristics of the small vessel disease called CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarct and leukoencephalopathy). They are enrolling volunteers to serve as healthy controls. Compensation is provided.

Do you... Find yourself constantly checking things? Spend lots of time ordering your belongings? Have unusual rituals or habits that seem unnecessary? Do you blurt out comments at inappropriate times, interrupt conversations or speak out of turn or feel you are overly impulsive? The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is conducting an outpatient research study on the links between compulsivity, impulsivity and the developing brain in children and young adults.