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The best ways to protect your hearing are to avoid exposure to loud sounds, move away from the noise, or turn down the volume. When these options aren’t possible, hearing protectors—earplugs or protective earmuffs—can help. Hearing protectors are wearable devices that can lower the intensity of sound that enters your ears.

Learn when to use hearing protectors, how to help children use hearing protectors, and what to know about different types of hearing protection.

Aprenda cuándo se debe usar protectores de oídos, cómo ayudar a los niños a usarlos y qué debe saber sobre los diferentes tipos de protectores oídos.

The Connect for Cancer Prevention Study will explore cancer risk in adults. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, have partnered with health care systems throughout the United States for Connect.

Joining the Connect for Cancer Prevention Study is easy. If you want to join, we will ask you to read and sign the informed consent form and electronic health records release form, and then create a user profile. In just a few steps, you can join us today to help prevent cancer tomorrow.

This page provides information on the NIH Next Generation Researchers Initiative policies that support early-stage investigators (ESIs).

The NIH Planning Grant Program (R34) provides support for the initial development of a clinical trial or research project. This program may support:.

Publicizing the outcomes of NIH-funded projects and communicating the role of NIH support in biomedical research improves public understanding of how we, the biomedical research community as a whole, are working to improve human health.

E-cigarettes are the most common tobacco products used by youth. Pediatric doctors Deepa Camenga, MD, MHS, FAAP, and Susan Walley, MD, NCTTS, FAAP, explain what vaping is and the health effects of vaping. For more information, please visit https://www.FDA.gov/tobacco.