Author: Board on Health Sciences Policy

An ideal health care system relies on efficiently generating timely, accurate evidence to deliver on its promise of diminishing the divide between ...

BioWatch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk path...

For most Americans, staying mentally sharp as they age is a very high priority. Declines in memory and decision-making abilities may trigger fears ...

The past several decades have been a time of rapid globalization in the development, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of medical products a...

Drug development can be time-consuming and expensive. Recent estimates suggest that, on average, it takes 10 years and at least $1 billion to bring...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on August 22-23, 2018, in Washington, DC, to explore medical and publ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) with a focus on procuring and managing medi...

Psychiatric illnesses - such as major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, substance use disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - are...

The critical importance of using mobile technology is clear to anyone in the health professions, particularly those who treat people with central n...

Individuals in the United States and Americans abroad are exposed to inhalation hazards from a variety of sources, and these hazards can have both ...

Humans are potentially exposed to more than 80,000 toxic chemicals in the environment, yet their impacts on brain health and disease are not well u...