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

Rare diseases collectively affect millions of Americans of all ages, but developing drugs and med...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the signature injuries of the U.S. conflicts in Af...

'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...

'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...

The inclusion of genomic data in a knowledge-generating health care system infrastructure is one ...

'This report summarizes a joint workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine and National Resea...

Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plants--and the pathogens they carry--to travel...

'From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle can...

Over the past century, we have made great strides in reducing rates of disease and enhancing peop...

Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increa...

'Elder Abuse and Its Prevention is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Instit...

Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertaint...

'During a wide-reaching catastrophic public health emergency or disaster, existing surge capacity...

Reducing the intake of sodium is an important public health goal for Americans. Since the 1970s, ...

Clinical research presents health care providers with information on the natural history and clin...

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