'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...

When it comes to motivating people to learn, disadvantaged urban adolescents are usually perceive...

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

Today, more than 11 million American children lack health insurance and the number increases ever...

The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of ...

Violence in Families takes the first hard look at the successes and failures of family violence i...

Integrity in Scientific Research attempts to define and describe those elements that encourage in...

Food safety regulators face a daunting task: crafting food safety performance standards and syste...

How do we effectively teach children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken?

How safe is our food supply? Each year one in every ten Americans has an illness caused by the fo...

The book overviews why and how drugs are used in food-producing industries--poultry, dairy, beef,...

Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults

Water Chemicals Codex

The Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control convened a workshop on October 2,...

Interpreting the Volume-Outcome Relationship in the Context of Cancer Care is a summary of a work...

'It is the unique mission of the Health Hazard Evaluation Program within the National Institute f...

Scientific experiments using animals have contributed significantly to the improvement of human h...

Based on a 2003 workshop, this study describes current public and private programs and recommends...

This update of 'Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders' focuses special attention on the research ba...

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploit...

Socioeconomic conditions are known to be major determinants of health at all stages of life, from...

This report summarizes the presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled Opportunities to P...

On November 9-10, 1998, the Forum on Adolescence of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, a...

'ABSTRACT Occupational injuries continue to be a significant public health problem in the United ...

The United States faces a new challenge--maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting sc...

'Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with...

On June 24-25, 1999, the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development of t...

As a result of the heightened public and political attention and the movement toward standards an...

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts construction-relevant ...

The agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors are the cornerstone of industries that produce foo...

.'..on January 30-31, 2012, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the Institute of Medici...

'At the request of Congress, the Institute of Medicine will evaluate U.S. global programs to addr...

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax letters, the ability to detect biolog...

'Adolescence is a time when youth make decisions, both good and bad, that have consequences for t...

National expenditures for medical care in the months and days preceding death are enormous. But w...

The United States is facing a vaccine shortage that may threaten public health. This book examine...

'Rpt. no. 2, Reviews of research programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and H...

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

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...