In 2023, the National Academies convened an expert committee to assess the current use of racial ...

In July 2024, the National Academies Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders hosted a ...

Population-based cancer surveillance has a pivotal role in assessing the nation's progress in can...

The development of minimally invasive approaches to screen for multiple tumor types at one time c...

Visual field is the total area of space a person can see when the eyes are focused on a central p...

This is the first of two reports requested by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to address...

As people get older, they become more likely to have hearing difficulties in certain situations; ...

Aligning Investments in Therapeutic Development with Therapeutic Need

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

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

'Advances in cancer research have led to an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms un...

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

Millions of women undergo screening mammography regularly with the hope of detecting breast cance...

The United States is facing an opioid use disorder epidemic with opioid overdoses killing 47,000 ...

'Millions of people in the United States live with serious illnesses such as cancer, heart diseas...

'Advances in biomedical research have increased our understanding of the complex nature of diseas...

'Advances in genetics and genomics are transforming medical practice, resulting in a dramatic gro...

In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted...

Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer is the summary o...

Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-i...

'Millions of people--infants, children, adults, and their families--are currently coping with ser...

'The increasing diversity of population of the United States presents many challenges to conducti...

'This study was supported by contract 36C10X18C0019 between the National Academy of Sciences and ...

Unlike many other areas in health care, the practice of oncology presents unique challenges that ...

'A report of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.'

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

'Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for peop...

The 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) consensus study report From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivo...

In January 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hosted the 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm...

'Abortion is a legal medical procedure that has been provided to millions of American women. Sinc...

Graduate medical education (GME) is critical to the career development of individual physicians, ...

'Millions of Americans of all ages face the challenge of living with serious illnesses such as ad...

Pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers, and government agencies such as the Food and Drug...

Many of the elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, and with the esta...

'Despite spending more time and money in developing novel therapeutics, the success rate for new ...

'A growing body of research indicates that social determinants of health have a significant impac...

Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2....

'The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on...

Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thr...

'Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as ...

In the United States, approximately 14 million people have had cancer and more than 1.6 million n...

'Today's physician education system produces trained doctors with strong scientific underpinnings...

'A report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine'

The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that 56.7 million Americans had some type of disability in 20...

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in United States, causing more than 440,000...

Childhood cancer is an area of oncology that has seen both remarkable progress as well as substan...

Every patient is unique, and the evolving field of precision medicine aims to ensure the delivery...

'Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies w...