In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicyc...
This proceedings is organized to follow the five sessions that constituted the workshop: U.S. nee...
The growing consumer interest in health and fitness has expanded the market for a wide range of p...
Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended ch...
The challenges for young people making the transition to adulthood are greater today than ever be...
Included in this comprehensive review of the research and data on family leave, child care, and i...
Mirroring a worldwide phenomenon in industrialized nations, the U.S. is experiencing a change in ...
In recent years, substantial efforts have been initiated to develop new drugs, vaccines, and othe...
Every year workers' low-back, hand, and arm problems lead to time away from jobs and reduce the n...
'On March 1, 2013, the IOM and the NRC convened a 1-day workshop, in Washington, DC ... Leveragin...
Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children explores...
Individuals with disabilities, chronic conditions, and functional impairments need a range of ser...
Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults
In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.S. schools have come from homes...
The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits t...
Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive ga...
Integrity in Scientific Research attempts to define and describe those elements that encourage in...
In 1997, after more than a decade of research, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released a rep...
Each year more than 180,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women in the U.S. If canc...
Introduction -- Documenting the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Shorter lives -- Poorer health throug...
Respiratory diseases caused by exposures to dangerous materials in the workplace have tremendous ...
'The original study 'From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development' w...
The National Children's Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000 and is be...
Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous syst...
'Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substa...
How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human...
'Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, an...
A range of natural earth materials, like arsenic or fluoride, have long been linked to significan...
Several positive and negative lifelong behaviors are established during adolescence including die...
Health care services in the United States are not designed to help young people develop healthy r...
'National Research Council of the National Academies.'
This book results from a study by a committee of the Institute of Medicine and the National Resea...
In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Rese...
The U.S. food system provides many benefits, not the least of which is a safe, nutritious and con...
Summary of workshop hosted by Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council (NRC)...
Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves under...
'This report summarizes a joint workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine and National Resea...
Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and lettuce illustrate the holes tha...
Why do young people turn to delinquency? This timely release discusses patterns and trends in cri...
Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing fa...
More than 30 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) c...
Immigrant children and youth are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their...
Socioeconomic conditions are known to be major determinants of health at all stages of life, from...
The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of ...
When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publica...
This report summarizes the presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled Opportunities to P...
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts construction-relevant ...