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

'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...

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

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...

The academic biomedical research community is a hub of employment, economic productivity, and sci...

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...

'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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

Readily accessible to any interested reader, this volume offers an analysis of the major issues s...

This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisors in science ...

During the last 40 years, the number of women studying science and engineering (S&E) has increase...

The National School Breakfast Program feeds 10 million children each day, and the National School...

Since the Gulf War ended in 1991, various constituencies, including a significant number of veter...

The Children's Vaccine Initiative is an international endeavor to advance the immunization of chi...

For nearly three decades, methadone hydrochloride has been the primary means of treating opiate a...

In June 1993 a clinical trial of fialuridine (FIAU), a promising new medication for hepatitis B, ...

Micronutrient malnutrition affects approximately 2 billion people worldwide. The adverse effects ...

Finding Common Ground

Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The rece...

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured bi...

In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Rese...

The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher Reeve, h...

The U.S. National Climate Assessment identified a number of ways in which climate change is affec...

In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Enc...

Each year more than 4 million children are born with birth defects. This book highlights the unpr...

Academic health centers are currently facing enormous changes that will impact their roles in edu...

As part of its ongoing commitment to the nation's space program, NASA's medical leadership asked ...

Physician Staffing for the Va

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a critical component of our nation's emergency and trauma car...

Summary of workshop hosted by Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council (NRC)...

This useful new volume defines a set of national objectives and identifies indicators--measures o...

Despite having the costliest medical care delivery system in the world, Americans are not particu...

The new Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in the U.S. Public Health Service is funding a...