Interprofessional teamwork and collaborative practice are emerging as key elements of efficient a...

Mending the Safety Net explains how competition and cost issues in today's health care marketplac...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are increasing in epidemic proportions in developing countries. CVD...

The concept of postdoctoral training came to science and engineering about a century ago. Since t...

Significant advances in brain research have been made, but investigators who face the resulting e...

Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons, and others with ...

Historically, 20% of all injured combatants die on the battlefield before they can be evacuated t...

'Improving Health in the Community' explains how population-based performance monitoring programs...

Since about 1980, asthma prevalence and asthma-related hospitalizations and deaths have increased...

Brain disorders--neurological, psychiatric, and developmental--now affect at least 250 million pe...

Effectiveness and Outcomes in Health Care

'Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic...

'If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people cou...

'One of the challenges in treating cancer is the disease's complexity and variation among patient...

Cardiac arrest can strike a seemingly healthy individual of any age, race, ethnicity, or gender a...

'The NIH contracted with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2012 to conduct a study to assess and...

'On March 1, 2013, the IOM and the NRC convened a 1-day workshop, in Washington, DC ... Leveragin...

Gene transfer research is a rapidly advancing field that involves the introduction of a genetic s...

Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really nee...

Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children explores...

Biological threats like SARS and natural disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia have devastated ...

A high proportion of cancer occurs primarily in older persons, and incidence of the major cancers...

'Many people naturally assume that the claims made for foods and nutritional supplements have the...

'Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide com...

Individuals with disabilities, chronic conditions, and functional impairments need a range of ser...

Over the past several decades, the public and private sectors made significant investments in glo...

Family violence affects more people than cancer, yet it's an issue that receives far less attenti...

Schools and Health is a readable and well-organized book on comprehensive school health programs ...

Only more recently has it been realized that the intense effort to care for and cure a child with...

Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are hea...

Zoonotic diseases represent one of the leading causes of illness and death from infectious diseas...

Part of the authoritative series on reference values for nutrient intakes, this new release estab...

In the food industry, scientists are exploring the potential of nanotechnology to enhance the fla...

Over 3 million U.S. military personnel were sent to Southeast Asia to fight in the Vietnam War. S...

'Occupational health nurses (OHNs) are front-line advocates for preventing illness and injury and...

'The Food Forum convened a public workshop on February 22-23, 2012, to explore current and emergi...

Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults

'The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to disabled adults and children,...

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the...

'Although health literacy is commonly defined as an individual trait, it does not depend on the s...

People are increasingly concerned about potential environmental health hazards and often ask thei...

The Committee to Review the Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War was charge...

'Since its inception, the U.S. human spaceflight program has grown from launching a single man in...

IOM's 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost...

In the United States, chronic diseases currently account for 70 percent of all deaths, and close ...

Significant advances in brain research have been made, but investigators who face the resulting e...

The remarkable increase in the prevalence of obesity among children and youth in the United State...

Even though slightly over half of the U.S. population is female, medical research historically ha...