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

Since 1943, Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) has been recognized as the most authoritative s...

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...

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

Creating an environment in which children in the United States grow up healthy should be a high p...

The number of psychiatric researchers does not seem to be keeping pace with the needs and opportu...

The United States is rapidly transforming into one of the most racially and ethnically diverse na...

New and improved therapies to treat and protect against drug dependence and abuse are urgently ne...

This book discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethical issues in the context of America...

We know more about cancer prevention, detection, and treatment than ever before-yet not all segme...

Every day, tens if not hundreds of thousands of errors occur in the health care system. Some can ...

The third in a series of congressionally mandated reports on Gulf War veterans' health, this volu...

Shortly after 1998, leading members of Georgia's government, medical community, and public-spirit...

This proceedings is organized to follow the five sessions that constituted the workshop: U.S. nee...

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

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

Despite great strides in injury prevention over the decades, injuries result in 150,000 deaths, 2...

Since 1997, the Institute of Medicine has issued a series of nutrient reference values that are c...

This volume examines the changing roles and interactions of these two critical participants in te...

More than a quarter of pregnancies worldwide are unintended. Between 1995 and 2000, nearly 700,00...

The growing consumer interest in health and fitness has expanded the market for a wide range of p...

Six dental schools have closed in the last decade and others are in jeopardy. This book offers sp...

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Americans enjoyed better overall health than at any othe...

Since its founding in 1970, the Institute of Medicine has become an internationally recognized so...

The Agency for Healthcare Research Quality commissioned the Institute of Medicine establish a com...

In the past 50 years the development of a wide range of medical devices has improved the quality ...

There is a growing perception that biomedical research has focused more on the health problems of...

This volume identifies the most promising opportunities for progress in basic and clinical resear...

U.S. military personnel are required to adhere to certain standards of body composition, fitness,...

In the wake of September 11'th' and recent anthrax events, our nation's bioterrorism response cap...

Many cancer patients are diagnosed at a stage in which the cancer is too far advanced to be cured...

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...

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...