Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Director, National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 1982 This report was developed in response to the most recent legislation affecting niaddk. Public Law 96-538, signed on December 17, 1980, changed the name of the Institute - from National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases to National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - and formalized several other changes which have taken place in the Institute's programs and organization. One requirement of the new law is the issuance of an annual report by the Director, to the President and the Con gress, describing the Institute's activities. This report is intended to fulfill that requirement comprehensively and Iucidly, to convey the spirit of challenge and achievement, to take an appreciative glance behind and a hopeful look ahead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.