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

Weight Gain During Pregnancy explores relationships between weight gain during prenancy and a var...

'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...

Only more recently has it been realized that the intense effort to care for and cure a child with...

Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults

The scars of war take many forms: the limb lost, the illness brought on by a battlefield exposure...

With the risk of more than one in three getting cancer during a lifetime, each of us is likely to...

From a public health perspective, motor vehicle crashes are among the most serious problems facin...

'For many years, experiments using chimpanzees have been instrumental in advancing scientific kno...

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...

In our society's aggressive pursuit of cures for cancer, we have neglected symptom control and co...

'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...

Mammography is an important tool for detecting breast cancer at an early stage. When coupled with...

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...

The challenges for young people making the transition to adulthood are greater today than ever be...

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...

The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the ...

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

The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a...

Water Chemicals Codex

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

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

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Ava...

The National Research Council's Disasters Roundtable and the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable o...

Respiratory diseases caused by exposures to dangerous materials in the workplace have tremendous ...

The National Cancer Policy Board and the Board on Science, Engineering, and Economic Policy conve...

A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain p...

The BioWatch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three...

'Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by T...

'In January 2014, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine and the...

BioWatch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal o...

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

The safety and quality of the U.S. food supply depend on a total program of careful microbiologic...

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

Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome ...

'Many measurement systems to monitor the well-being of children and guide services are implemente...