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...

MEDICAL General

To provide an unbiased evaluation of the science and potential clinical uses of antiprogestins fo...

Ensuring that the food provided to children in schools is consistent with current dietary recomme...

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

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

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...

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

'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...

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...

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

'[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent t...

Papers Commissioned for a Workshop on the Federal Role in Research and Development

Parents have come to depend on vaccines to protect their children from a variety of diseases. Som...

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

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

The brain ...

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

'The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible fo...