Author: Board on Health Sciences Policy

Accumulating evidence gathered over the past three decades has demonstrated a biological basis for differences between men and women with respect t...

Approximately five percent of Medicare beneficiaries (2.2 million Americans) are living with serious illness, as are many other non-Medicare eligib...

The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a phy...

Coal remains one of the principal sources of energy for the United States, and the nation has been a world leader in coal production for more than ...

There is a void in evidence-based information for making informed decisions on how to optimize care for older adults, particularly those 80 years a...

The United States is facing an opioid use disorder epidemic with opioid overdoses killing 47,000 people in the U.S. in 2017. The past three decades...

Those involved in the drug development process face challenges of efficiency and overall sustainability due in part to high research costs, lengthy...

COVID-19 has proven among the worst public health crises in a generation. Public health emergencies (PHE) have always been anticipated. Despite the...

As the demographics of the United States shift toward a population that is made up of an increasing percentage of older adults and people with disa...

Disasters and public health emergencies can stress health care systems to the breaking point and disrupt delivery of vital medical services. During...

The process for translating basic science discoveries into clinical applications has historically involved a linear and lengthy progression from in...

Many drug developers have examined new strategies for creating efficiencies in their development processes, including the adoption of genomics-base...

Gene transfer research is a rapidly advancing field that involves the introduction of a genetic sequence into a human subject for research or diagn...

The use of immune modulator therapeutics, a type of immunotherapy enhancing the body immune system response to cancer, was perceived as the beginni...

Pain is both a symptom and a disease. It manifests in multiple forms and its treatment is complex. Physical, social, economic, and emotional conseq...

Every job can lead to stress. How people cope with that stress can be influenced by many factors. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employs...

At the request of NASA, an IOM committee reviewed NASA Human Research Program's (HRP's) Scientific Merit Assessment Processes for directed research...

Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 4,500 people worldwide every day. While most cases of TB can be treated with antibiotics, some strains have d...

During public health emergencies such as pandemic influenza outbreaks or terrorist attacks, effective vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and other medic...

Despite the many basic research discoveries in genetics, relatively few gene-based treatments, drugs, or preventative measures have been developed....

The process of discovering and developing a new drug or therapy is extremely costly and time consuming, and recently, it has been estimated that th...

Countering violent extremism consists of various prevention and intervention approaches to increase the resilience of communities and individuals t...

Caffeine in Food and Dietary Supplements is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine in August 2013 to review the available ...

Accessible and affordable housing can enable community living, maximize independence, and promote health for vulnerable populations. However, the U...

One of the largest treatment gaps for mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders in the world can be seen in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)....

Both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have responsibilities for evaluat...

This is the fourth in a series of five letter reports that provide an independent review of the more than 30 evidence reports that NASA has compile...

Large catastrophic events, or rare acute events, may cause situations in which a local jurisdiction's medicines and medical supplies are not suffic...

In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended a framework for the evaluation of biomarkers in the chronic disease setting. Published in the b...

In December 2019, new cases of severe pneumonia were first detected in Wuhan, China, and the cause was determined to be a novel beta coronavirus re...

In 2009 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) began to assess the need for better-defined medical and public health crisis standards of care (CSC) for ca...

On November 18 and 19, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, titled Shari...

In the wake of a large-scale disaster, from the initial devastation through the long tail of recovery, protecting the health and well-being of the ...

Cardiac arrest can strike a seemingly healthy individual of any age, race, ethnicity, or gender at any time in any location, often without warning....

In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the societal disruption it has brought, national governments and the internatio...

Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy,...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved dozens of hormone therapy products for men and women, including estrogen, progesterone, te...

For many years, laboratory dogs have served as important animal models for biomedical research that has advanced human health. Conducted at the req...

Millions of people are living with dementia in the United States and globally. To live well with dementia, people need care, services, and supports...