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The 1944 Public Health Service Act authorized the NIH to award grants in aid of research, and it also permitted NIH to conduct clinical research. These two authorities changed the scope and scale of NIH’s research in the second half of the twentieth century. In addition, the 1944 act mandated that NIH provide materials for the public explaining the most recent discoveries about disease.